Fernando Hernandez Espino
Systemic Change • International Trade and Investment • Human Rights • Environmental Justice • Corporate Accountability • New Economics • Transnational Agrarian Movements • Land Rights
I am a well-trained activist who focuses on economic policies and its effects on people's livelihoods, human rights and the environment. I have worked supporting rural cooperatives and collaborated with grassroots organisations across the world. My work at Both ENDS is led by the partner's objectives to achieve justice and their rights to dignity and wellbeing respected. As a part of the Trade and Investment team and together with our partners we strive for systemic changes where human rights and the environment are above profits.
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Dossier
Rights for People, Rules for Corporations – Stop ISDS!
Indigenous communities in Paraguay saw their attempts to regain their ancestral lands thwarted by German investors. In Indonesia, US-based mining companies succeeded to roll back new laws that were meant to boost the country’s economic development and protect its forests. This is the level of impact that investment treaties can have on social, environmental and economic development and rights. Why? Because of the ‘Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement’ clauses that are included in many such treaties.
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News / 8 March 2020
Pursuing the right to livelihood and dignity for women workers in the Ugandan palm oil sector
SEATINI Uganda is engaging women working in the palm oil sector in a campaign to improve their work situation. Around International Women's Day, March 8, they are organizing various actions to gain awareness for the situation and the rights of these women workers.
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News / 11 October 2019
Rights for people, rules for corporations: the case of Paraguay
Indigenous communities in Paraguay saw their attempts to regain their ancestral lands thwarted by German investors. This is the level of impact that investment treaties can have on social, environmental and economic development and rights. Why? Because of the ‘Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement’ (ISDS) clauses that are included in many such treaties.