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

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.

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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 […]

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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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Statement by the Global Campaign on the 3rd Revised Draft of the Treaty on TNCs and Human Rights

The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle Transnational Power and End Impunity (Global Campaign) takes note of the publication of the third revised draft of the binding treaty, released on 17 August 2021.

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