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  • Land, Seas and Territories to feed our Dignity and the Peoples of the World
    March 2012

    On 5 and 9 March press conferences will be held during the last round of the international negotiations on land at FAO: The mobilization of social organizations and Italian NGOs.

     
  • Press Release: Irish referendum crucial to challenge EU austerity treaty
    March 2012

    European researchers and activists in Brussels announce support for "No" vote in Irish referendum as critical to challenging EU programme of permanent austerity.

  • How international rules on countering terrorist-financing are undermining freedom of association
    March 2012

    How international rules on countering terrorist-financing are undermining freedom of association: an analysis of the impact of FATF ‘Special Recommendation VIII’ on non-profit organisations.

  • Press release: The UN Narcotic Control Board's attack on Bolivia is irrational
    February 2012

    The UN International Narcotics Control Board's irrational attack on Bolivia for its reservation on one aspect of the 1961 Single Convention on Drugs is further evidence of its incompetence and overreach.

  • World Water Forum attendance down as activists ramp up
    February 2012

    Critics of the triennial World Water Forum are encouraged by the failure on the part of forum organizers to attract large numbers to this year's event taking place March 12-17 in Marseille.

  • The hidden impact of land deals in developing countries to be revealed
    April 2011

    The vacant land discourse, promoted by some land deals, is fundamentally flawed. Cases of deals made for land that is unclaimed, unused or unoccupied by local people is simply untrue.

  • Press Release: Experts gather to discuss solution to global land grab
    October 2010

    Leading academic experts gather in Rome to discuss how to solve growing social and environmental problems around the global land grab.

     

  • Press Release: Leading political analysts from Asia in Brussels to challenge ASEM
    September 2010

    TNI and the AEPF will call on the Heads of State and governments of ASEM member countries to pursue more just and sustainable solutions to current global crises.

  • CAP 2013: European civil society calls on EU to reshape Common Agricultural Policy
    September 2010

    335 organizations call on EU ministers to revise failed "market" approaches to food policy, and focus instead on meeting human needs, ensuring food sovereignty and environmental protection.

  • EU Trade Policy Hits Poor
    June 2010

    Campaigners call on the EU to change trade policies which lead to human rights and environmental crimes in developing countries, as the EU trade commissioner meets with the European Parliament (22 June) to discuss ongoing policy.

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