«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
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 10th session 02 mars – 27 mars 2009 [Exerpt from the statement] This study is innovative in several respects. It is also welcome, because in the scandalous context of famine and malnutrition worldwide, which long predates the food crisis that has been affecting many countries in the South for over a year […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 10th session 02 March – 27 March 2009 [Extract from the declaration] Existing human rights instruments do not meet the specific needs of peasants in the context of globalisation. The rules of international trade favour the law of the strongest, in other words the stranglehold of transnational corporations on the economy and […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 9th session September 08 – September 26 2008 [Excerpt from the statement] As we have already indicated in our joint statements presented at the special session of the Human Rights Council on the global food crisis1, the causes of hunger and malnutrition are multiple, but the main cause is the orientation of […]
Continue readingADVISORY COMMITTEE 1st session 4 – 15 August 2008 Introduction Hunger and malnutrition in the world has been a recurrent problem for a long time. Its causes and those of the recent food crisis are well known to those who face the facts. However, the responses to one of the greatest violations of human rights […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 8th session 02 June – 18 June 2008 [Excerpt from the statement] This is why it is time to move on from the stage of studies, however useful they may be, to the establishment of effective mechanisms at international level that will also help States to control and regulate the activities of […]
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