Transnational Institute

19.11.2009 Migrants' rights have to be addressed on two fronts, says Walden Bello: end the neoliberal policies that are responsible for creating poverty in their home countries, thus forcing them to emigrate, and demand that they are given full rights in their host countries.

10.01.2009 Israel's illegal airstrikes against the population of Gaza have little to do with protecting Israeli civilians, argues Phyllis Bennis. They are used for internal Israeli politics and are also meant to push back any chance of serious negotiations between the parties that might have been part of the Obama administration's plans.

18.12.2008 Despite driving poor communities off their land and patently failing to deliver carbon emissions reductions, lobbyists for big industries and institutions such as the World Bank were active in Poznan climate negotiations pushing for further deregulation and expansion of the market-based Clean Development Mechanism.