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This week, members of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) are holding their annual conference to assess ongoing attempts to reform the controversial agreement. Amidst growing concerns that the ECT undermines urgent climate action its corporate profiteers, the ECT Secretariat, and others are spewing propaganda, promoting falsehoods about how the treaty attracts clean investment and how its ‘modernisation’ will fix any flaws. Cut through the rhetoric with our myth-busting guide to the ECT’s world of dirty energy, highway robbery, and corporate abuse.
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This week, members of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) are holding their annual conference to assess ongoing attempts to reform the controversial agreement. Amidst growing concerns that the ECT undermines urgent climate action its corporate profiteers, the ECT Secretariat, and others are spewing propaganda, promoting falsehoods about how the treaty attracts clean investment and how its ‘modernisation’ will fix any flaws. Cut through the rhetoric with our myth-busting guide to the ECT’s world of dirty energy, highway robbery, and corporate abuse.
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The EU proposes that Tunisia enter into a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with it, negotiations for which have been ongoing for five years. The economic and social impact of such an agreement could be very significant, and this report examines the concerns that have been voiced about the DCFTA, but largely excluded from official negotiations and the national discussion in Tunisia on the mooted trade deal.
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Upon declaring a Global War on Terror in 2001, the Bush administration claimed that the “fight against terrorism was also a fight for the rights and dignity of women”. In the years that followed, western political discourse regularly referred to the need to “free” apparently oppressed Muslim women from the shackles of their religion and way of life, reviving political and societal debates about head coverings, integration, gender equality, secularism, and neutrality.
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After two years of fractious debate, today in Vienna the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) voted to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which is reserved for controlled substances with limited or no therapeutic benefit. Read more.
This report explores the politics and practices in small- scale fisheries that form part of the global struggle for agroecology and food sovereignty.
Zarli Aye Kyaw is a woman who uses drugs from Yangon. She spent over four years in prison for drugs use related issues. The country’s prisons have problematic living conditions and are overcrowded. Zarli relates her life experience and the time she spent in Insein prison, the country’s largest and most infamous detention facility. Over the years, she has worked as a peer educator on HIV related issues for a drug user network in Myanmar. She continued similar activities while incarcerated in prison. Read more.
Since its onset in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the frailties of global political leadership, preparedness, and governance. To a level unequaled by other disruptive moments in recent decades—the HIV/AIDs and Ebola crises, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 2008 financial crisis—COVID-19 has shaken the credibility of national and international institutions to manage supranational crises. Read more.
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In this conversation, Chihiro and Anna give some background to their expo, and in the process provide a cross-section of BP Shell's widespread transgressions, and a glimpse into the different forms of resistance that could lead us to a future beyond Shell.
Chihiro Geuzenbroek and Anna Bissila are both climate activists, and the co-organizers for the expo: People-Powered Movements versus Shell. An exhibition that explores the fight for justice that has been fought from Indonesia to Nigeria, from Curaçao to South Africa, and from Alaska to Groningen. Through installations, audio-stories, photography and relics of activisms, the exhibition invites the public to learn from the people who have shown resistance and made calls for decolonial climate justice.
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