As leaders gather in Washington DC for the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, openDemocracy and the Bretton Woods Project present a new series on the crisis of multilateralism.
Rural activists are finding out that a UN declaration to protect them and action by governments to hold those responsible for human rights violations and attacks on them accountable – are two different things. Español
Mount Alebban protest camp is the physical heart of the Movement on Road ‘96. There, the pipeline valve to the biggest silver mine in Africa is wrapped in chains and
Whilst climate collapse hits the global poor hardest, environmentalist movements like Extinction Rebellion have become increasingly nation-centred. We need climate justice that foregrounds the global south and reparations and undoes border imperialism.
Human rights are well established in constitutional and international law. But in the face of dangerous climate change and ecosystem collapse, do we need ‘rights of nature’?
Conocida como el “Chernóbil de la Amazonía”, la tristemente célebre historia de la contaminación de Chevron-Texaco en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana ingresa en una nueva etapa de su ya larga historia. English.
The infamous story of the environmental pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon by Chevron-Texaco – which has come to be known as the "Amazonian Chernobyl" - is entering a new phase. Español.
A statement by the producers of Amussu, an upcoming documentary film that tells the story of a community's continued struggle for environmental justice.
