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How do local initiatives ensure access to đŚwater, đfood, đ housing, and đĄenergy? This month you have the chance to support radical changes in cities. Check out the 12 inspiring finalists of this yearâs Transformative Cities Peopleâs Choice Award and vote for your favourite!
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How do local initiatives ensure access to đŚwater, đfood, đ housing, and đĄenergy? This month you have the chance to support radical changes in cities. Check out the 12 inspiring finalists of this yearâs Transformative Cities Peopleâs Choice Award and vote for your favourite!
Defend Walden Bello, Support Free Speech in the Philippines
TNI associate Walden Bello has been arrested for "cyberlibel" charges by the authoritarian government in the Philippines.
Join the fundraiser to help cover his legal expenses for what is expected to be a protracted legal battle.
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This primer explores why it is imperative to orient ourselves and our social movements towards a Just Transition and how we can consciously and deliberately move away from the dysfunctional and destructive systems that are leading us towards extinction. How can we advance towards new systems of social relations that will help us to survive and overcome the climate crisis and to reverse the planetâs sixth mass extinction?
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This report sheds light on Nigeriaâs investment protection regime and its consequences for one of Africaâs biggest countries. It points out the risks of continuing the path of strengthening investors' rights to sue the State by joining the Energy Charter Treaty instead of protecting peopleâs rights to a healthy environment, and argues for abandoning all treaties that include ISDS.
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To challenge some of the common myths about China, and offer a more contextualised perspective, Transnational Institute, gongchao.org, Made In China Journal, Lausan, Critical China Scholars, Positions Politics and the Asia-Europe Peoplesâ Forum co-organised a webinar series covering six major topics ranging from Chinaâs political and economic system to its global impact. The webinars brought together activists and scholars. This briefing is based on the insights shared during the webinars.
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Why are African countries drawn to the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), when the treaty has such obvious grave implications for their ability to determine their own internal policies? What is the broader context that informs this seemingly contradictory behaviour?
Listen to our new podcast series on ISDS and the ECT in East- and West Africa.
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One participant described the State of the World Conference as âvery informative and inspiring and alarmingâ all at the same time, perfectly summing up the sense shared by many attendees. If you missed a session or indeed the whole conference, donât worry. We have recorded them all, you can find them here.
Webinar series: How does free trade between Europe and Mexico affect women?
18:00 ECT
Shared testimonies from womenâs experience resisting and defending their rights and life.
- Oct 13. Indigenous and peasant women, the land, extractives and the environment. Register here
- Oct 19: (Women´s) human rights: violence, feminicides, trafficking, migration and militarization. Register here
Context: The EU is advancing very fast towards signing the EU-Mexico Global Agreement. Recent news reports have raised the alarm that both parties have reached an agreement to a temporary free trade deal. If Mexico accepts this, it means that the trade part of the agreement will enter into force once approved which is expected to happen in 2023. You can learn more from our report: Unmasked: Corporate rights in the renewed Mexico-EU FTA.
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Almost two years on from Trump's electoral defeat, it is clear that the resurgence of the far-right in North America is far from over. Militarized white nationalist, xenophobic and misogynist forces have capitalized on the pandemic and the deepening economic crisis to mobilize new support. Three leading anti-fascist thinkers and activists share their analysis on the nature of the threat, the ways the far-right have used race, migration, and transphobia to organize, and what strategies the left needs to tackle this new hydra.
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11:00 Eastern Time (US)
In this panel, the discussion will center on the following question: âHas the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) accelerated investments in renewables? Learning from the Spanish Cases.â This session is a moderated discussion with advocates, attorneys, experts, and government officials from Spain.
- Irene GonzĂĄlez Pijuan, Researcher and Campaigner, IngenierĂa sin Fronteras (Engineers without Borders) and Alianza contra la Pobreza EnergĂŠtica (Alliance against Energy Poverty)
- Rodrigo Iruzun, Energy Policy Expert, Member of Ecologistas en AcciĂłnâ¨
- Juan Castro-Gil Amigo, National Secretary, ANPIER - AsociaciĂłn Nacional de Productores de EnergĂa Fotovoltaica (National Association of PV Energy Producers)
- Rafeal Gil Nievas, Professor of International Arbitration; Counsel, Eversheds Sutherland; Former Deputy Head of Arbitration, Government of Spain
- Moderator: LucĂa BĂĄrcena MenĂŠndez, Project Officer, Economic Justice program, Transnational Institute
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