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

The Responsibility of Transnational Corporations in the Violation of Human Rights

During the last twenty years, transnational corporations (TNCs) have acquired unprecedented economic, financial and political power. Markets and capital globalization, which has been mostly profitable to these companies, has allowed for further concentration of their capital and production means, creating oligopolistical situations. Their activities cover all sectors . They can choose where and how to […]

Activities of the Working Group on transnational Corporations of the HRSC

I. In 1998, the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, duly concerned about the effect of the methods of work and the activities of transnational corporations on the enjoyment of human rights, decided to create a Working Group with the following six points mandate. “1) to identify and examine the effects of […]

Globalisation and its effects on human rights

SUB-COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 53rd session 30 July – 17 August 2001 [Excerpt from the statement] The industrial and financial groups that drive globalisation with the backing of political institutions are practising an exclusionary form of globalisation. According to the theory of ‘comparative advantage’, free trade is always beneficial to all parties, stimulating less efficient […]

Declaration on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 57th session 19 March – 21 April 2001 [Excerpt from the declaration] On the initiative of CETIM and the American Association of Jurists (AAJ), an NGO petition was launched to this effect, calling on the 57th session of the Human Rights Commission, on the one hand, to affirm the primacy of fundamental […]

The Participation of Transnational Corporations in the Development and Implementation of Colombia Plan

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 57th session 19 March – 21 April 2001 Read the CETIM written statement 1. The Colombia Plan Presented as a fight against drug trafficking and officially dubbed “a plan for peace, prosperity and the strengthening of the state”, the Colombia Plan is in reality a military operation whose objectives are the opposite […]

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