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Why agricultural investment ‘principles’ must be buried
Author: Rahul Goswami, in Pambazuka
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations will in 2014...advocate principles concerning what are called ‘responsible agricultural investments’. The...principles...are expected to promote investments in agriculture that...
- Related companies: Archer Daniels Midland Cargill
International law and ecological debt
Author: Antoni Pigrau, Susana Borràs, Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann, Jordi Jaria i Manzano (CEDAT-Universitat Rovira i Virgili), EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade)
Under the paradigm of sustainable development, contemporary international law has not been able to shape an effective, nor an equitable, answer to the global ecological crisis...[C]orrection will require a profound reconceptualisation of global...
Tobacco Firms’ Strategy Limits Poorer Nations’ Smoking Laws
Author: Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times
Tobacco companies are pushing back against a worldwide rise in antismoking laws...[by] warning countries that their tobacco laws violate an expanding web of trade and investment treaties, raising the prospect of costly, prolonged legal battles, health...
- Related companies: British American Tobacco Philip Morris International
[PDF] Global Framework Agreements in a Union-Hostile Environment: The Case of the USA
Author: Michael Fichter (Global Labour University of Germany) & Dimitris Stevis (Colorado State University), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Global Union Federations have made significant progress in advancing Global Framework Agreements that create arenas for labor relations based on the Core Labor Standards of the...ILO. These Agreements...are a means of setting minimum standards and...
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How Cigarette Companies Use Free Trade Deals To Sell To Women And Kids
Author: Tim Fernholz, Quartz
[G]lobal tobacco companies have increasingly turned to developing markets to expand their business...Tobacco companies...want to make sure they can protect and expand their businesses in those markets, especially among women...Public health and...
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- Related companies: Philip Morris International
Health ministry embarks on campaign against tobacco farming [Uganda]
Author: Pascal Kwesiga, New Vision (Uganda)
The Ministry of health has engaged the civil society and local leaders to drive the campaign against tobacco farming. A principal medical officer in charge of mental health, control of substance abuse and management of neurological disorders, Dr....
Big pharma problem for HIV/AIDS [Uganda]
Author: Henry Zakumumpa, in The Independent (Uganda)
The lives of thousands of Ugandans enrolled on HIV treatment hang in the balance after an application by poor countries to extend the deadline for manufacture of generic AIDS drugs was rejected by the World Trade Organization (WTO)...Over 90% of HIV...
UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution Promoting Medicines Access
Author: Intellectual Property Watch
The United Nations Human Rights Council today adopted a resolution urging governments to encourage technology development and transfer and to apply intellectual property rights measures in ways that avoid creating barriers to trade in “affordable, safe...
[PDF] A History of Neglect. UK Export Finance and Human rights
Author: Amnesty International UK
[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited UK Export Finance (UKEF) to respond. UKEF's response is provided below] [The] eagerness [of UKEF] to help secure new overseas contracts for British companies often comes at the expense of human...