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We have come to Geneva from 40 countries to demand an end to corporate impunity

Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Dorothy Grace Guerrero

15 October 2018
General

Global Justice Now is joining the Week of People’s Mobilisation from 13 to 20 October in Geneva. It has been organised at the same time as the fourth session of an intergovernmental working group of the UN Human Rights Council, which is mandated to develop a UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights. The battle for this long-sought treaty is entering a decisive stage.

The far-right Brazilian candidate and the women’s movement fighting fascism

Rosanna Wiseman
Rosanna Wiseman, Global Justice Now

12 October 2018
Youth

On 7 October millions of Brazilians across the world voted in the presidential elections - 46% of them voted for the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, dubbed ‘The Brazilian Trump’. In London I queued up for three hours, along with hundreds of other Brazilians living in the UK, to vote and fight against him.

Untrammelled corporate power threatens global breakdown, says UN agency

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

11 October 2018
General

It’s a rare thing for UN economic reports to mention Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and quote Antonio Gramsci in their introduction. Neither do most such reports normally contain stark warnings about the damage that untrammelled corporate power is causing to political fabric of countries across the world.

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69 of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments, figures show

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  • 157 of top 200 economic entities by revenue are corporations not countries
  • Top 10 corporate revenues exceed $3 trillion
  • British government urged to support Binding Treaty to hold corporations to account at UN in Geneva this week

The health innovation system is ‘broken’ and failing patients

Pharma

NHS patients are being let down by a global health innovation system which fails to deliver the treatments they need at prices that government can afford, according to a new report led by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), in collaboration with STOPAIDS, Global Justice Now and Just Treatment.

MPs must stop 'informing' on constituents to Home Office, say migrant groups

Migration

15 leading organisations working with migrants have today written to the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, to express deep concern over hundreds of cases of MPs reporting their constituents to the Home Office for immigration crime.