Transnational Institute
Founded in 1974, TNI is an international network of activist-scholars concerned to analyse and find viable solutions to global problems.
Primary web addresses
http://www.tni.org
Email
tni@tni.org
Main Address
Paulus Potterstraat 20
1071 DA Amsterdam
1071 DA Amsterdam
Country
Netherlands
Main Telephone
020 6626608
Joined OneWorld
01/25/2000
Features
03/24/2008
Corporate-led, finance-driven globalisation has successfully transferred wealth from labour to capital. This has resulted in inequality and exclusion on a massive scale which, combined with the pressure on water and other environmental resources, is likely to fuel new conflicts, says Susan George.
Read moreImage: © Fundación Chandra
03/09/2008
The Transnational Institute condemns the International Narcotics Control Board's call on countries to "abolish or prohibit coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea".
Read moreRelated: [South America]
Image: Bolivian weavers and coca leaf © R.Massey / United Nations Development Programme
12/21/2007
The United States is putting strong pressure on the Afghan government to officially adopt the strategy of eradicating the opium poppy through aerial spraying of the crops with the herbicide glyphosate.
Read moreRelated: [Afghanistan] [United States]



