AUDIO-Stora Enso accused for activities in Brazil and Uruguay http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/Bad-Company,2350?lang=es

Swedish-Finnish transnational corporation Stora Enso will be tried for a series of human rights and environmental violations in Latin America. Several civil society organizations will submit this case to the Permanent Peoples´ Tribunal which will be held in Madrid, in May.

The organizations denouncing the forestry and cellulose company are CEPEDES, Via Campesina Brazil, Friends of the Earth Brazil, Friends of the Earth Uruguay, the Centre for Environmental Research (CEA), the Biofilia Institute, SEMAPI and SIndBancarios unions, CIMI, the Agroecological Centre do Extremo Sul Da Bahia, and the World Rainforest Movement (WRM). As a result of the activity of Stora Enso, “peasant and indigenous groups and communities are forced to accept an economic development model based on tree monoculture plantations, that does not respect their rights and ways of living and that rejects any alternative to the current capitalist system.”