Whether efforts to regulate pharmaceutical companies’ patent rights so as to make essential medicines accessible, peoples’ tribunals aimed at protecting indigenous peoples’ lands in the face of extractive economies’ expansion into their territories, or new waves of transnational antisweat shop campaigning, such bottom-up corporate accountability strategies rarely draw on the global standards that dominate the attention of global governance analysts and… [read post]

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Generations of people in the community were poisoned by lead, arsenic and other toxic substances, resulting in a devastating array of physical and mental illnesses and in some cases, death. [read post]