Claude Kabemba:While the new mining code may have ensured the government get more returns, recent developments suggest these will remain in a few select hands, and that deals continue to be made between powerful individuals behind closed doors.Read the full article
In the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, Venezuela is gripped by gold fever. Venezuelans are flocking by the hundreds to the Orinoco Mining Arc and the environment is paying the price in the form of deforestation and mercury-polluted [...]Read the full article
Why does a country that approves and leads climate action promote, in parallel, development based on extractivism - an option that undermines the rights of the people?Read the full article
“What we want is equality, and that equality should also apply to decision-making. In this struggle, we want to stand alongside men and not be sidelined, to make decisions, particularly regarding our land.”Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:“There is a deeply unjust imbalance: a victim of a multinational cannot apply to any court for justice, while a multinational can turn against states via private arbitration tribunals.”Read the full article
In our globalised economy, as consumers and citizens, we are increasingly confronted with the impact of our purchases on the lives and health of those who produce and make our food and day-to-day objects.Read the full article
Everyone in Phnom Penh remembers the last general elections. The excitement, the mass rallies, the protests, the promises of change and the frenetic activity on social media. Perhaps that is why the silence now, in the run-up to 29 July elections, feels all the more [...]Read the full article
Marta Torre-Schaub:“Going to court to settle a planetary issue not dealt with by international law, that’s where the novelty lies. Judges are also breaking new ground by agreeing to hear cases of this kind.”Read the full article
The Democratic Republic of Congo has the world’s second largest rainforest, about 135 million hectares, which is a powerful bulwark against climate change.Read the full article
From north to south, the Americas are in the grip of an intense election year, set against the background of Lula’s imprisonment in Brazil, the participation of the FARC in Colombia, rising violence in Mexico and calls to reject the results in Cuba and Venezuela. Leading the polls are the most [...]Read the full article
"The idea that south-east Asian markets will make up for the worldwide decline in coal is nothing more than the false hope of a dying industry"Read the full article
