Attac Ireland's first open meeting after the summer will take place on the 19th of October 2016, Wednesday, 7pm at Comhlamh, 12 Parliament Street, Dublin 2. All welcome, and facebook event is … [Read more...]
Timeline of the struggle to establish international accountability for human rights abuses by transnational corporations
Note from Attac Ireland: We are publishing this text with view of the next session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights taking place on the 24 to 28 Oct. by Claudine Gaidoni History Timeline … [Read more...]
Irish Senate Rejects PA of CETA
On Wednesday 5th October, 2016, the Irish senate voted to reject the ‘provisional application’ of the CETA[i] - the controversial EU-Canada free ‘trade’ deal. The non-legally binding motion[ii] passed because the main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, … [Read more...]
Letter to Chancellor Kern from European Civil Society Organisations
H.E. Christian Kern Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria October 6, 2016 Federal Chancellery Ballhausplatz 2 1010 Vienna Austria Your Excellency, Chancellor Kern We, the undersigned, wish to commend you on the concern you have … [Read more...]
Free Trade and Investment, Tax and Human Rights, Part II – Tax
In “The Hidden Wealth of Nations”, Gabriel Zucman writes: “(w)e can no longer continue to liberalize trade while completely ignoring the problems of fiscal dissimulation.” In the World Investment Report 2015, we read: “Ongoing anti-avoidance … [Read more...]
