«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
Summary CETIM and AIJD address the two Special Rapporteurs on their joint report to express their concerns about the problem of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the consequences that these have on the human rights situation in various countries. In the statement, CETIM and AIJD raise the case of the murder of activist and […]
Continue readingINTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON TNC 3rd session 23-27 October 2017 [Excerpt from the statement] The Global Campaign to Claim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle the Power of Transnational Corporations and End their Impunity, an international network of which CETIM is a member and which brings together more than 200 members, representatives of victims, affected communities and social […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 42nd session September 2019 [Excerpt of the declaration] Many obstacles stand in the way of the realisation of the right to development, starting with unfair trade, the inequitable distribution of wealth, private control over natural resources and their waste, the burden of foreign debt, non-respect for the right of peoples to self-determination […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 40th session March 2019 The CETIM comments on the Draft Treaty presented by the Chair of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises. This Draft Treaty is a basis on which to begin negotiations, but it contains significant shortcomings. For example, the draft Treaty does not impose obligations […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 43rd session 24 February – 20 March 2020 [Excerpt of the declaration] The revised draft legally binding instrument on TNCs does not respond effectively to the fundamental challenges of globalization and the control sought over the activities of TNCs that violate human rights. Read the CETIM’s oral statement in French Watch the […]
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