On June 16, a judge of the Municipal Court of Jericó, a municipality in the department of Antioquia, released eleven peasants who are facing legal proceedings for opposing a mining project of transnational corporation AngloGold Ashanti in the area. The decision allows the peasants to continue the process while remaining free, contrary to the request of the Prosecutor's Office that…
Humanity is facing devastating times. Although Israel is relentless with its genocide in Gaza, it also decided to bomb Iran and brought the world to its knees, unleashing a conflict that could have catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and the world. Ethnic cleansing in Palestine was not enough for Israel this time. In this context of terror, our new…
The latest edition of Voices are Action looks at the reasons behind the massive protests against the government in Panama. We also report on two climate lawsuits filed in the Netherlands; the International Anti-Chevron Day; and the concerns raised by Indigenous Peoples in Malaysia over the implementation of a carbon credit project. In this second episode you will find audio…
Javier Milei took office as President of Argentina on 10 December 2023. During this time, the far-right leader, an uncompromising defender of the free market and inciter of hate, imposed social cuts, persecuted demonstrators and used violence in different ways, showed himself subservient to Israel and the US, and began to build a new internal enemy: all people fighting for…
“There is a common assessment, not only by civil society, social movements or the people, that the multilateral system has failed, and is not delivering solutions to global and common problems,” said Gonzalo Berrón, representative of the Transnational Institute (TNI). “We have to reform the UN,” he added in an interview with Real World Radio. A group of several social…
An encounter of social movements and organisations calling for a new multilateralism at the service of the peoples and the planet began on Thursday in New York, United States, ahead of the United Nations (UN) Summit of the Future to be held in that same city on 22 and 23 September. The encounter*, which will be held until Saturday at…
A judge in Florida, United States, found banana transnational Chiquita Brands International liable for the murder of eight people, committed between 1997 and 2004 by paramilitaries of the right-wing United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) in the regions of Urabá Antioquia and Magdalena Medio. The US court, where Chiquita Brands is based, ordered the company to pay 38.3 million dollars…
On 5-7 June in Bogotá, capital city of Colombia, several activities took place linked to the struggle for human rights, environmental justice and against the impunity of transnational corporations. Among them was a screening of the documentary The Illusion of Abundance on June 5th. The film tells the stories of three women, beacons of the resistance and struggle against transnational…
The United Nations Civil Society Conference, taking place this Wednesday and Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya, ahead of the Summit of the Future to be held in September in New York (United States), ‘seeks to reinstate a corporate-driven agenda rejected by States and social organisations in the Summit process.’ ‘It is a crude attempt by the Office of the Secretary General…
What is the relationship between climate change and agrarian struggles? As world leaders, and fossil fuel lobbyists, convene for climate negotiations at COP28 (the Conference of the Parties) in Dubai, we talk with Kirtana Chandrasekaran from Friends of the Earth International (India/Scotland) and Emilinah Namaganda of Utrecht University (Uganda/Netherlands) about their work on the political economy of global climate responses.…
