«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations at the UN on the theme of impunity of transnational corporations
INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON TNC 3rd session 23-27 October 2017 [Excerpt from the statement] The Global Campaign to Claim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle the Power of Transnational Corporations and End their Impunity, an international network of which CETIM is a member and which brings together more than 200 members, representatives of victims, affected communities and social […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 42nd session September 2019 [Excerpt of the declaration] Many obstacles stand in the way of the realisation of the right to development, starting with unfair trade, the inequitable distribution of wealth, private control over natural resources and their waste, the burden of foreign debt, non-respect for the right of peoples to self-determination […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 40th session March 2019 The CETIM comments on the Draft Treaty presented by the Chair of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises. This Draft Treaty is a basis on which to begin negotiations, but it contains significant shortcomings. For example, the draft Treaty does not impose obligations […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 43rd session 24 February – 20 March 2020 [Excerpt of the declaration] The revised draft legally binding instrument on TNCs does not respond effectively to the fundamental challenges of globalization and the control sought over the activities of TNCs that violate human rights. Read the CETIM’s oral statement in French Watch the […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 52nd session (27 February-4 April 2023) The impunity of TNCs is the reason for the creation of the Intergovernmental Working Group charged with drafting a binding treaty. However, we are concerned by the opaque way in which the negotiations are being conducted and the attempts to sideline the participation of civil society. […]
TNCs: value chain and human rights
Right to development and private security companies
Consideration of the report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations
Revised draft legally binding instrument on TNCs
Drafting a binding treaty on transnational corporations: opaque negotiations and attempts to oust them
