The story of Samancor Chrome is a textbook case of how “investor-friendly” policymaking has enabled corporate plunder, at the cost of long-term development.
Samancor and the dark side of foreign investment
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UN treaty to curb corporate impunity delayed
There is a growing push for a legally binding international framework that holds corporations accountable for human rights violations.
Imagining development alternatives from the heart of the extractivist monster
Anti-extractivist movements, campaigns and networks such as the Right to Say NO in Southern Africa not only provide powerful critiques of extractivism and the growth-focused development model. They also have radical political potential. They are imagining just and...