Tricky Business | Böll.Spotlight

Governments and business are ruthlessly asserting their interests
in an unprecedented global run on resources. Meanwhile citizens'
basic rights are denied and civil society's scope for action
massively curtailed. These are no longer isolated incidents in
authoritarian countries, we are witnessing a broad and systematic
suppression of local participation and protest. This podcast looks
at the mechanisms used to constrain civil society and the possible
counter-strategies, drawing on the results of the study, "Tricky
Business - Space for Civil Society in Natural Resource Struggles"
by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the European Center for
Constitutional and Human Rights." You can read the study here:
https://www.boell.de/en/2017/12/07/tricky-business