«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
1. The world recently commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945, followed by the liberation of several other Nazi concentration camps1. Auschwitz was the biggest concentration and death camp organized by the Nazi machinery, where millions of people where sent2 and submitted to hard labour, hunger, executions, crematorium ovens and […]
Continue readingSUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 57th session 25 July – 12 August 2005 [Excerpt from the statement] Given that the procedures we have just mentioned do not yet exist and/or only partially cover issues raised by the activities of transnational corporations, it would be wise to establish a specific mechanism within […]
Continue readingSUB-COMMISSION ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 57th session 25 July – 12 August 2005 Read the CETIM’s written statement By publishing his report on the reform of the United Nations, on the 21st of March 20051, the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan caused quite a stir. Entitled ‘In Larger Freedom: towards development, security […]
Continue readingSUB-COMMISSION ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 57th session 25 July – 12 August 2005 Read the CETIM written statement I. The mandate of the Working Group on transnational corporations The resolution 2005/69 of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) totally ignores the work accomplished since many years by the Sub-Commission for the […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 61st session 14 March – 22 April 2005 [Excerpt from the statement] Although this report mentions violations committed by the coalition armed forces engaged in Iraq, it remains silent on the use of mercenaries and their consequences in this conflict. Furthermore, it takes at face value President Bush’s statement of 10 May […]
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