Nick Buxton
Nick Buxton
Communications Manager
Nick Buxton is a communications consultant, working on media, publications and online communications for TNI. He has been based in California since September 2008 and prior to that lived in Bolivia for four years, working as writer/web editor at Fundación Solón, a Bolivian organisation working on issues of trade, water, culture and historical memory. His publications include “Civil society and debt cancellation” in Civil society and human rights (Routledge, 2004) and “Politics of debt” in Dignity and Defiance: Bolivia’s challenge to globalisation (University of California Press/Merlin Press UK, January 2009).
Areas of expertise:
Trade Policies, EU-CAN Relations, Participatory Democracy, Social Movements, Latin America Left, Climate Justice policiesContact
Email: nick AT tni dot org
Work tel: +1 (530) 758 8952
Mobile: +1 (530) 902 3772
English, Spanish
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Recent content by Nick Buxton
Could granting rights to nature change the climate debate?
December 2010
In the wake of failure in Cancun and the much deeper problem that humanity is no longer living within the ecological capacity of the planet, might it be time for nature to have its own legal advocates?
Corporate capture at the heart of Europe
October 2010
The Irish government announcement of a €34 billion Euro bailout, two years after the financial crisis first broke, is a reminder that little has been done to prevent it happening again just as the social costs are becoming ever more evident.
Key issues on the table at the 8th Asia Europe People's Forum
September 2010
Ahead of the Asia Europe People's Forum (AEPF) which coincides with the official ASEM8 summit this year in Brussels, four TNI scholar-activists - Susan George, Praful Bidwai, Ben Hayes and Walden Bello - discuss some of the key struggles facing citizens from both regions.
Is the water privatisation tide finally turning?
September 2010
The EU's announced fund of 40 million Euros to support “non-profit partnerships” of water and sanitation utilities in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific is the latest evidence that the corporate push for water privatisation has been forced on to the back foot.
Peoples Conference model of inclusion offers only path forward on climate change
May 2010
The Peoples' conference on climate change showed that a global movement, much larger than anyone imagined and with firm proposals, has coalesced and gathered strength
Bolivia provides resistance and hope at Brokenhagen
January 2010
Thanks to the courage of Bolivia and a few other nations – and against huge pressure and threats to sign the deal - the UN did not endorse or adopt the vacuous Copenhagen Accord but instead were forced to use the much weaker language of “noting” it.
Website overhaul
October 2009
Transnational Institute has re-launched its core website - www.tni.org – to better showcase the work of its fellows and projects. Explore its new features and give us your feedback
U.N. General Assembly president urges rich countries to better address the economic crisis
July 2009
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, the elected president of the United Nations General Assembly, d'Escoto has touched a raw nerve among the world's most powerful nations.
Why is the UN ignoring the financial crisis?
June 2009
UN conference was convened to find new ways of dealing with the global financial and economic crises and give voice to those most affected by them. But the rich countries have opposed any real change, and the result is an anemic UN document.
Shielding the President
April 2009
Why are top Democrats protecting Bolivia's former president from facing trial for the massacres he ordered?
