Category: Human Rights

How Top Food Companies Fail to Protect Environmental Activists in Supply Chains

How Top Food Companies Fail to Protect Environmental Activists in Supply Chains

By Benjamin Dangl Published on September 15, 2017 Source: Toward Freedom Destruction of rainforest in West Kalimantan, Borneo paves way for palm oil plantation. Photo by David Gilbert/RAN A recent investigation by the anti-poverty advocacy organization Oxfam reveals how the world’s top ten food and beverage companies are failing to protect environmental and human rights defenders…

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Paraguay: Protests and Rubber Bullets Greet Return of Dictatorship Criminal

Paraguay: Protests and Rubber Bullets Greet Return of Dictatorship Criminal

Written by Benjamin Dangl Saturday, 02 May 2009 Workers and activists gathered in the central plaza of Asunción, Paraguay on May 1st to commemorate International Workers Day. Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo marked the day by raising the minimum wage by 5%, half of what many of the unions present were demanding. But another piece of…

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Argentina Remembers: Marches Mark 33rd Anniversary of Military Coup

Argentina Remembers: Marches Mark 33rd Anniversary of Military Coup

By Benjamin Dangl April 21. 2009 The weekend that the hemisphere’s Presidents met in Trinidad at the Summit of the Americas marked the same weekend that Cuba defeated the US in the Bay of Pigs invasion 48 years ago. At the Summit, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega recalled the invasion in a speech that rightly criticized…

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Paraguay: A Laboratory for Latin America’s New Militarism

Paraguay: A Laboratory for Latin America’s New Militarism

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