
The Controversy of Green Energy: Unmasking Southern Africa’s Critical Mineral Sacrifice Zones
This report covers six southern African countries deeply impacted by critical mineral extraction.

Rights for the People rules for TNCs: First impressions on the updated draft treaty on TNCs and human rights
Statement of the Global Campaign, 11th of September 2023 The Global Campaign to Reclaim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity (Global Campaign) is a worldwide network of over 250 social movements, civil society organisations, trade unions and communities…

The Maputo Declaration on Rivers and Dams
PREAMBLE We, the social movements, civil society organisations, grassroots communities, lawyers, academics, experts and others, from several provinces of Mozambique and also from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Brazil, Cuba, France,…

The Challenges of Tenure Security and Reform in South Africa
The Alternative Information and Development Centre; the Center on Race, Law and Justice; the Land and Accountability Research Centre; and the Legal Resources Centre present: A Symposium on Tenure Reform and Land Tenure Security. Conference Details Date: Monday, 24 April 2023 Time: 14h00-17h00…

Empowering Communities: The Right to Say No Campaign promotes self-determined development and the right to consent!
Last week, Southern Africa and the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power hosted a two-day #RightToSayNo national workshop attended by over 70 activists from mining communities across the country. They discussed a number of issues under the theme: Building the Just…

Right to Say No Counter Mining Indaba Report: A Just Transition Away From Minerals Energy Complex
On the 6th and 7th of February community activists from South Africa and Swaziland gathered in Cape Town to strategize ways to challenge extractivism and to speak out against the violence inflicted onto human rights defenders and activists by the…