International

The president is bragging about his trade and jobs record in the Midwest. So why didn’t he lift a finger when GM shut down my factory?

In the face of resistance from poor and Indigenous communities, global mining companies are increasingly turning to international arbitration to strong-arm governments into bending to their interests.

The impacts are particularly severe in Kenya, where the country’s large number of Hiv/Aids orphans are struggling through yet another pandemic.

The Xinka people of Guatemala are building on strong community organizing skills rooted in their culture to protect their community from the health threats of both mining and the pandemic.

Means-tested cash transfer programs are leaving huge numbers of the poor in Jordan, Palestine, and Lebanon without the help they need during the crisis.

Global South communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics — health, economic, violence, militarization, and corporate capture.

Wealthy corporations may use trade courts to keep public health measures from cutting into their profits.

A judge awarded $11 million to a former partner at Ernst & Young who was fired for blowing the whistle on money laundering at a gold refinery in the United Arab Emirates.

High levels of inequality and weak public health and safety net systems make the region extremely vulnerable to the ravages of the pandemic.