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![Transnational Corporations: Major Players in Human Rights Violations Sociétés transnationales: acteurs majeurs dans les violations des droits humains](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3192850778_a357a8c4eb_bis-160x110.jpg)
March 03 2012
Transnational Corporations: Major Players in
Human Rights Violations
To understand the system of dominant power in contemporary society,
it is necessary to understand the role that TNCs play within it.
By Europa-Third World Center
![Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco and Demand Moratoria on REDD+ Pueblos Indigenas hacen un llamado por una Moratoria sobre REDD+](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/4479112988_83dfd736b3_obis-160x110.jpg)
January 13 2012
Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco
and Demand Moratoria on REDD+
“We will not allow our sacred Amazon rainforest to be turned into a
carbon dump. REDD is a hypocrisy that does not stop global warming”.
By Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD and for Life
![Governance of international trade for the green economy Governance of international trade for the green economy](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/13953_une_bis-160x110.jpg)
December 14 2011
Governance of international trade for the green
economy
Today’s trade system may be incapable of steering the world into a
“green economy.” It is, however, a wisely constructed ...
By International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development ◾ Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz
![Wealth, power and the future of the planet Wealth, power and the future of the planet](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tb_php_bis-160x110.jpg)
December 11 2011
Wealth, power and the future of the planet
Concentration of wealth is unjust and confers undue advantage to
those who then use this wealth primarily to usurp the ...
By International Forum on Globalization ◾ Jack Santa Barbara
![Development without Carbon: Climate and the Global Economy through the 21st Century Development without Carbon: Climate and the Global Economy through the 21st Century](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/6246337801_12d66a1112_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 22 2011
Development without Carbon: Climate and the
Global Economy through the 21st Century
Economic development and the eradication of energy poverty are
increasingly seen as key components in a comprehensive strategy ...
By Elizabeth A. Stanton ◾ Stockholm Environment Institute
![The Green Economy, Poverty and the Global Inequality The Green Economy, Poverty and the Global Inequality](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4293716030_9bb59d5867_z-160x110.jpg)
July 23 2011
The Green Economy, Poverty and the Global
Inequality
The contemporary crisis’s of global capitalism are however only the
most acute in the last eighty years. Whilst originating in the ...
By Rasigan Maharajh