by The Corner House
submission | published May-June 2008 | summary | PDF
This Corner House submission to a parliamentary committee scrutinising the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill argues that the proposed legislation does not sufficiently protect the independence of prosecutors and creates a grave risk of abuse by the Government of national security arguments.
by Jeffrey Jowell QC
- | published June 2008 | summary | PDF
This 'legal opinion' from a top UK constitutional lawyer concludes that a clause in the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill (published 25 March 2008) effectively preventing judicial review of a decision to halt a prosecution or fraud investigation on the grounds of national security violates a fundamental UK constitutional principle of the rule of law, and could be challenged under the Human Rights Act.
by The Corner House and Campaign Against Arms Trade
news | published April 2008 | summary | PDF
Even before the judgement has been given on the landmark judicial review of the decision by the UK's Serious Fraud Office to halt its BAE-Saudi Arabia corruption investigation, the UK Government has introduced draft legislation whose effect would be to prevent in future such a judicial review -- and even such an investigation. The Corner House and CAAT are calling upon the public and parliamentarians to voice their concerns about the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill.
by Dinah Rose QC, Ben Jaffey, Richard Stein and Jamie Beagent
submission | published March 2008 | summary | PDF
The UK Government's draft Constitutional Renewal Bill proposes to create a new power for a political appointee and member of the Government, the Attorney General, to stop a criminal investigation or prosecution on the grounds of 'national security' without explanation or accountability to Parliament, the Courts or international bodies.
by Larry Lohmann
paper | published September 2005 | summary | full document | PDF
Seeing social or technical change as the application of new "theory" to "practice" is one of the hazards of 21st-century middle-class life. Middle-class activists could take a leaf from both expert elites and grassroots movements, who both tend to know better.
by Sarah Sexton, Nicholas Hildyard and Larry Lohmann
presentation | published April 2005 | summary | full document | PDF
Far-right groups in Britain are increasingly using environmental and social justice concerns to argue against immigration. This is part of a clear political strategy to make racist ideas and goals seem more respectable. Whether they like it or not, environmentalists are therefore being increasingly drawn into debates on immigration, refugees and asylum seekers. To counter this strategy, environmental groups need to link with those who have to deal with racism every day as a matter of strategy, process and structure.
by Anne Hendrixson
briefing | published December 2004 | summary | full document | PDF
'Youth-bulge' theory refers to the large proportion of the world's population under 27 years old who are supposedly prone to violence. Images of angry young men of colour as potential terrorists and veiled young women as victims of repressive regimes support the theory. The implied threat of explosive violence and explosive fertility provides a rationale for US military intervention and population control initiatives in other countries and justifies government surveillance of Muslims and Arabs within US borders.
by Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite
briefing | published September 2004 | summary | full document | PDF
When TRIPS was signed in 1994, the United States, Europe and Japan dominated the world's software, pharmaceutical, chemical and entertainment industries. The rest of the world had little to gain by agreeing to these terms of trade for intellectual property. They did so because a failure of democratic processes nationally and internationally enabled a small group of men within the United States to capture the US trade-agenda-setting process, to draft intellectual property principles that became the blueprint for TRIPS and to crush resistance through US trade power.
by Larry Lohmann
review | published December 2000 | summary | full document
Review of Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia, Charles Zerner, (ed.,) Duke University Press, 2001
by Larry Lohmann
briefing | published August 1998 | summary | full document
by Nicholas Hildyard
talk | published June 1998 | summary | full document
by Nicholas Hildyard
talk | published June 1998 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
briefing | published May 1998 | summary | full document
Opinion polls and cost-benefit analysis, like public relations, attempt to construct new, simplified “publics” which are friendly to bureaucracies, politicians and corporations. The success of these attempts is limited by popular resistance at many levels.
by Larry Lohmann
article | published March 1998 | summary | full document
All development projects follow a three-act dramatic plotline, as development agencies try to impose plans, meet local opposition, and improvise freely in an attempt to overcome resistance.
by Nicholas Hildyard, Pandurang Hegde, Paul Wolverkamp and Somersekhave Reddy
briefing | published February 1998 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
article | published September 1995 | summary | full document
by Nicholas Hildyard
article | published July 1995 | summary | full document
by Nicholas Hildyard
presentation | published Summer 1995 | summary | full document
A presentation looking at the forces which have degraded the earth and which now propose to manage its recovery through processes such as “sustainable development”.
by Nicholas Hildyard, Larry Lohmann, Sarah Sexton and Simon Fairlie
paper | published 1995 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
article | published April 1994 | summary | full document
Westerners wanting to engage in effective international campaigning often will need to question their very conceptions of what social movements are.
by Larry Lohmann
article | published July 1993 | summary | full document
Effective political struggle in intercultural space means creatively weaving in and out of all the cultures present.
by Nicholas Hildyard
article | published March 1993 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
review | published January 1993 | summary | full document