Tag: #EndStateViolenceNow

The Asia Pacific is scourged by destructive resource extraction and exploitation by mining companies, agribusiness, aggressive infrastructure development, and other forms of wasteful and unsustainable industry, perpetrated by corporations that put their interests and profits over rights, lives, and communities. We have also seen that where these pillagers operate, they are most often protected by the state – the very entity that we expect to regulate and restrict their destructive behavior.