Transnational Corporations

Transnational corporations (TNCs) have become major and powerful actors.

The activities of transnational corporations are a source of multiple human rights violations

In many cases, especially when victims are from the Global South, impunity prevails. TNCs are indeed able to evade national jurisdictions because of the unprecedented economic, financial and political power they command, their transnational character, their economic and legal flexibility and the complex structures they use to carry on their activities.

Since the late 90s, the CETIM is firmly committed to ending the impunity of transnational corporations and ensuring access to justice for the victims of their activities. The CETIM supports social movements, trade unions and organizations representing victims and affected communities from the Global South in their efforts to access the UN human rights protection mechanisms. And the CETIM is involved to their sides in the campaign for new binding international norms to end impunity, providing its support for their participation in the negotiations and the presentation of their proposals.

Stop TNCs impunity Campaign

Access to justice for victims of TNCs

Argentina: Mapuche Community presents a Referral to the UN to Denounce Persecution, Criminalization, and the Impact of Extractivism

JOINT PRESS RELEASE February 24, 2026 The Mapuche community of the Lof Pillañ Mahuiza (Patagonia, Argentina) announces that, with the support of CETIM, an organization holding consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a complaint has been submitted to several UN human rights protection mechanisms. The decision to bring the case […]

Senegal: Energy sovereignty, a decolonial tool

Published in ‘Le Courrier’ on 3 February 2026 By Raffaele Morgantini, CETIM Representative to the UN Since 2024, Senegal has been seeking to assert its energy sovereignty by renegotiating the extractive contracts inherited from the previous neo-colonial regime. Its confrontation with Australian oil company Woodside Energy before an international arbitration tribunal illustrates the tension between […]

UN experts urge binding accountability for agribusiness to safeguard peasants’ rights

Published the 16th of October 2025 on Defending Peasants’ Rights Ahead of the upcoming UN negotiation session (20–24 October 2025) to elaborate a legally binding treaty on transnational corporations, the UN Working Group on Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas and the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food have issued a powerful […]

Profits over Life: A Plastic Treaty already Dead on Arrival

PRESS RELEASE Geneva, August 14, 2025 From August 5 to 14, 2025, the fifth round of negotiations on the International Treaty on Plastic Pollution took place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. As negotiations on this legal instrument draw to a close, CETIM wishes to share its thoughts and express its concerns about this […]

Peru : a community denonces Glencore at the UN for human rights violations

PRESS RELEASE Frente de Defensa de los Derechos Humanos del Perú, Resistencia Activa Ya ! Coaltion suisse contre Glencore, CETIM Geneva, 27th of June 2025 Watch the CETIM’s statement in Spanish In the 56th session of the Human Rights Council, a representative from the farmers’ community of San Marcos, located in the Ancash region (Peru), denounced […]

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