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Charlize Tomaselli

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Extraction: Among the green minerals is copper, which is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, South Africa and Namibia. Photo: Getty Images
AFRICA

Decolonise the mind to power a green future

Green industrialisation in Africa is needed for the climate crisis and for a just development path

  • Charlize Tomaselli
8 min read
The binding treaty is one of several mechanisms that aim to curb corporate impunity. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)
BINDING TREATY NEGOTIATIONS

UN struggles to enforce corporate accountability amid global power imbalances

The binding treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights, proposed by South Africa and Ecuador in 2014, is yet to be ratified

  • Charlize Tomaselli
7 min read
Officials search the crash site after the plane carrying Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjold (1905 – 1961), Secretary-General of the United Nations, came down near Ndola in Zambia, resulting in his death, September 1961. Hammarskjold was on his way to negotiate a ceasefire with President Moise Tshombe of Katanga. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
COBALT AND NICKEL MINING IN CONGO

Today’s hidden costs of critical minerals mining in DRC recalls Dag Hammarskjöld’s death 1961

The UN leader killed in 1961 during peace negotiations in Congo may have been an assassination plot over Western interests in mining. Today’s violence in eastern DRC is over…

  • Charlize Tomaselli
6 min read