Press releases

Internationalist solidarity with Palestinian civil society

PRESS RELEASE We, the undersigned, stand in firm internationalist solidarity with Palestinian Civil Society and demand the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reverse their recent decrees against six of the most important rights-based organisations in occupied Palestine. On October 19th, 2021, the Israeli Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, issued a military order […]

Global South states and civil society keep up momentum to regulate transnationals corporations under international human rights law

PRESS RELEASE Geneva, 2.11.2021 – From 25 to 29 October UN member states continued the negotiations to elaborate an international Legally Binding Instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations including all entities in their global production chains.

Press release – States resume historic UN negotiations amidst growing consensus on the need for binding regulations on transnational corporations and human rights

PRESS RELEASE 25 October 2021, Geneva- Today, United Nations member states resume negotiations in the seventh session of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) mandated to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Michele Bachelet, opened […]

States resume historic UN negotiations amidst growing consensus on the need for binding regulations on transnational corporations and human rights

UN Summit on Food Systems: Statement of the social movements

PRESS RELEASE The UN Summit on Food Systems will be held this Thursday 23 September 2021 in New York. CETIM has repeatedly expressed its deep concerns about this Summit, which has been characterised by its opacity and by the capture of transnational agribusiness companies. Many rural social movements and other civil society organisations oppose this […]

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