At almost 79 years of age, Trân Tô Nga says she is fighting “the” battle of her life: trying to hold 14 multinational corporations accountable for the use of “Agent Orange” during the Vietnam War, which destroyed her body and life, and the bodies and lives of many of her fellow nationals. The court action she brought against these corporations in 2014 in France is now in its final stage.
Gabriela Mundo, International Affairs Director at the Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office of Guatemala, discusses the causes that lead thousands of Guatemalans—men, women, and children—to abandon their country in search of a better future.
In its first episode, Working Women Moving Forward introduces us to Dania Obando, general secretary of the Union of Palm Workers (SITRAPA) of Costa Rica.
The claimants allege that the French multinational corporation sells meat linked to deforestation and land-grabbing practices in Amazonia.
In what could be seen as a sequel to the famous Monsanto Papers (a series of documents revealing the methods employed by that transnational corporation to discredit those who were denouncing the harmful effects of its products and the pressure exerted by the company on governments, politicians, and scientists), the British newspaper The Guardian has just uncovered similar tactics used by Bayer, Monsanto’s current owner, to make Mexico abandon its decision to ban glyphosate.
In abject poverty. Completely forsaken. This is how workers of the multinational corporation Fyffes/Sumitomo live in Honduras. Workers who have given the company years of their lives, yet are denied a dignified life.
This is how workers of the multinational corporation Fyffes/Sumitomo live in Honduras.
A subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis formed by members of the new United States Congress has launched an investigation into widespread Covid-19 cases and deaths in several of that country’s meatpacking plants.
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When those elected by the people to lead and manage government institutions renounce their most basic duties and responsibilities, such as protecting human life, and do so to safeguard and promote the economic interests of a sycophantic1 elite and of multinational corporations, they rightfully earn the epithet “serial social killers.”