CETIM statements on the impunity of transnational corporations

In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations at the UN on the theme of impunity of transnational corporations

Comments on the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights and transnational corporations

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 4th session March 12–30, 2007 [Excerpt from the statement] However, the Special Representative tends to downplay this approach, suggesting that TNCs are not directly subject to international law and that the most appropriate solution would be for the State, together with businesses and “civil society,” to draw inspiration from a few international […]

The negotiations of the enlargement of ALBA offer a perspective of alternative regionalization to the neo liberal mondialization

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 4th session March 12–30, 2007 Read the CETIM’s written statement 1. On December 4th 1986, after several years of relentless work, the Declaration on the Right to Development was approved by the vast majority of States (146 out of 155 votes in favour, a dozen abstentions and one opposition, that of the […]

Report of Special Representative Ruggie on human rights and TNCs

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 2nd session 18 September – 6 October 2006 [Excerpt from the statement] Furthermore, the Special Representative states that he relied on ‘the assistance and advice of eminent jurists and theorists’ from three countries (§ 5)2. However, the experts in question come from a single legal system and share a common ideological vision […]

Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Standards on Responsibilities

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 58th session – Working Group on TNCs 7 August – 25 August 2006 [Excerpt from the statement] One of the main obstacles is undoubtedly the lack of political will on the part of States to control and regulate the activities of transnational corporations operating on their […]

The role of big business in the Holocaust

1. The world recently commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945, followed by the liberation of several other Nazi concentration camps1. Auschwitz was the biggest concentration and death camp organized by the Nazi machinery, where millions of people where sent2 and submitted to hard labour, hunger, executions, crematorium ovens and […]

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