«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
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.
Access to justice for victims of TNCs
Introduction Since the discovery in late 2010 of one of the largest shale oil and gas deposits in the world, in the Vaca Muerta formation in Patagonia, in Argentina, serious inroads have been made into sensitive areas of the region. Operations carried out by transnational companies with links to State-controlled oil companies have triggered a […]
Continue readingThe thirty-first session of the United Nations Human Rights Council took place in March 2016 in Geneva. The CETIM acted as the voice of the peoples and of social movements in the fight for their rights. In fact, one of the CETIM’s missions is to denounce human rights violations committed by multinationals and their […]
Continue readingThe CETIM spent three days in Brussels for an expert seminar on the subject of multinationals and human rights, in preparation for the second session of the Working Group on transnational corporations and human rights. The last day, a public conference was held at the European Parliament, organized by the parliamentary group European United Left […]
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Multinationals with great economic and political power violate human rights with almost total impunity. The CETIM is bringing out a publication that will demonstrate the necessity and urgency of having a binding international instrument to sanction those multinationals responsible and enable the victims to obtain compensation.
Continue readingIn the course of the Human Rights Council’s thirty-first session, the CETIM intervened in the discussion of subjects related to its historic role of advocate and nerve center for the social movements of the Global South. During the Council’s session, which was held in February and March 2016, the CETIM condemned the anti-union repression in […]
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