The European Commission is on a roll. After proposing to destroy Europe’s corporate sustainability law, they now want to attack various food laws, including on protections from pesticides. Stripping away protection against toxic pesticides The European Commission is pushing a sweeping overhaul of pesticide rules that could dramatically weaken protections for people and the environment. …
JOINT STATEMENT: Call for European Parliament to deliver a credible and ambitious corporate accountability law
On Thursday 13 November, EU decisionmakers will vote on the future of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). This is a crucial moment as we have witnessed how EU institutions are destroying laws that were designed to protect communities, human rights, workers rights and the environment in favour of corporate demands and their profits. …
Farming beyond Pesticides – Success Stories from the Field
All over Europe, farmers and municipalities are proving that food can be produced in a healthy, caring, fair and ecological way, without pesticides or with a minimal amount. Many farmers across Europe have already managed to phase out pesticides or substantially reduce their use. Unfortunately, these positive examples are not yet the norm. Driven by …
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How to use legal frameworks around factory farming to inspire action
In March 2025, residents of As Conchas, Spain, launched a landmark legal case against national and regional authorities over decades of pollution from industrial pig farms. A first-of-its-kind lawsuit that could reach the European Court of Human Rights and have reverberations across Europe. This guide explores how factory farming continues to harm health, nature, and …
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Joint-statement on deregulation: Do not weaken the rules that safeguard people and the environment
470 civil society, trade unions and public interest groups tell President von der Leyen, European Commissioners and EU Member States that our rights, planet, health and justice are not for sale. The EU risks a new race to the bottom. Under President Ursula von der Leyen, the EuropeanCommission plans an unprecedented wave of drastic cuts …
Statement: From Allende to Albanese: The Legacies of Colonialism, Imperialism and the Struggle to Tame the Corporation
In 1972, Salvador Allende stood before the United Nations General Assembly and offered a searing indictment of corporate power. He warned of a world where transnational corporations eclipsed sovereign governments, where economic imperialism supplanted democratic governance, and where the fate of nations was subordinated to the balance sheets of distant shareholders. His speech, delivered shortly …
