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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.
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Food Sovereignty: the struggle for a fair global food system
The global food system is in crisis. The reason? Food being treated as just another commodity to be traded, rather than as a fundamental human right. The scale of hunger and malnutrition across the world today is the direct result of our global economy in which hundreds of millions of small farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists and indigenous people face ruin - because of the hijacking of the food system by large corporate agribusiness and food retailers.
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Why union-busting must go out of fashion at Next
Garment workers at a Next-owned factory in Sri Lanka have formed a trade union. Next has not accepted the union and won't engage in negotiations.
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'Judge, Jury, and Occupier' report: questions & answers
Why focus on Israel’s military courts?