The People Vs. Corporate Courts
A webinar exploring corporate courts (ISDS) – the secretive tribunals written into trade deals that enable corporations to sue countries for billions of pounds.
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Taxing extreme wealth for fairer, greener societies
The UK government must join global efforts to coordinate wealth taxes and urgently tax those with more than £10 million in assets.
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Israel’s illegal settlements destroy Palestinian homes, lives and rights
Not only is this illegal, systematically violating the rights of the Palestinian people causes devastating harm.
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Global Green New Deal: 10 interventions to transform our world
The world is in crisis. Only a just transition to societies rooted in equality and harmony with our planet – through a Global Green New Deal – can ensure dignified lives for all.
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Garment Workers: Paying the price of the pandemic
A webinar discussing the fight for garment workers rights in light of the recent establishment of the International accord.
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Corporate capture of our food systems: the importance of language
Corporations are co-opting the language of peasants' and environmental movements to press their agenda of profit over people and planet.
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The Corporate Capture of Food Systems
The UN Food Systems Summit 2021 will achieve nothing meaningful while its agenda is shaped, and its language defined, by the very corporations that have engineered our current — broken — food systems.
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The Energy Charter Treaty is a threat to climate action
Corporate courts, facilitated by the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), are enriching fossil fuel companies at the expense of climate action.
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Why the world needs a Global Green New Deal
We face a clear choice: continue tweaking the same failing global systems, or reimagine the world where the principles of protecting people and the planet come first.
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Make Amazon Pay
Amazon is amassing power in ways that threaten a future of inequality, poverty and irreversible climate change.
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Policing Bill: why we're standing up for the right to protest
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill poses a dangerous threat to all of our rights. The right to assemble, which allows us to peacefully protest, is vital to any democratic society.
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Rana Plaza Never Again
War on Want joins with trade unions in Bangladesh and the Clean Clothes Campaign to demand that the Rana Plaza disaster never happens again.
Corporate Courts v The Climate
Why we must abolish secret corporate courts before they destroy the planet.