Witnesses of human rights abuses by European Transnational Corporations in Latin America presented their cases in the European Parliament at the 18th of November 2009. In preparation of the People’s Permanent Tribunal (TPP) at the alternative EU-LAC summit, 14-18 May 2010 in Madrid, e.g. Brazilian Fisher of a bay near Rio de Janeiro showed how a Thyssen-Krupp steel plant infringes environmental law with the result of displacing local fisher. The situation is tense: on the one side, the fisher are organising themselves; on the other side, the companies’ security service is enunciating death threats against the fisher.
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