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

To promote and strengthen the agricultural local and national economies: only effective way to fight against prices escalation of agricultural products and their shortage

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 7th special session on the Right to Food May 22, 2008 Read the CETIM’s written statement The current crisis of agricultural raw materials severely affects the poorest peoples of our planet.1 Prices on the world market for cereals are rising for a year : wheat prices increased by 130%, rice 80% and […]

Is poverty a violation of human rights?

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 6th session, 2nd part December 10 – December 14, 2007 Read the CETIM’s written statement The question may seem absurd given that poverty limits the capacity of individuals to exercise their freedom, to enjoy their most fundamental rights, to live in dignity, and to take their place fully in society. How, for […]

Human rights violations committed by transnational corporations in Colombia

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 6th session 10 September – 28 September 2007 Read the CETIM’s written statement Over the past four decades, Colombia has faced a dire social, political and armed conflict.1 In this context, it has to be noted that the numerous transnational corporations operating inside Colombia are somehow involved in the conflict, collaborating with […]

Ethanol fuels are not a green energy and compete directly with the food needs of people!

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 5th session 11 June – 18 June 2007 Read the CETIM’s written statement The “ethanol partnership”, launched with great pomp and ceremony by the United States and Brazil on 9 March 2007, marks a new phase in the energy strategies of the great powers, just as does the decision by the European […]

Comments on the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights and transnational corporations

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 4th session March 12–30, 2007 [Excerpt from the statement] However, the Special Representative tends to downplay this approach, suggesting that TNCs are not directly subject to international law and that the most appropriate solution would be for the State, together with businesses and “civil society,” to draw inspiration from a few international […]

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