Many countries from the Global South (in Africa, South East Asia, Latin America and Caribbean) consistently supports an ambitious international legally binding instrument. The countries that directly reject and have tried to stop the process include the United States, Japan, Canada and Australia.
Binding Treaty
Rights for the people, rules for TNCs! – First impressions on the updated draft treaty on TNCs and human rights
It is alarming that the process in the lead up to the updated draft has been marked with an unacceptable level of arbitrariness by the Chair. For instance, the weeks leading up to the 8th session of the OEIGWG were riddled with inconsistencies that give rise to important procedural and ethical concerns. It is time for transparency, coherence, collaboration, and, above all, it is time for justice.
Frontiers of an effective Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations (TNCs)
This document compiles the reasoning and most important arguments the Global Campaign for Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Human Rights as mandated by Resolution 26/9 of the UN Human Rights Council.
‘We Feed the World’ | An illustrated book in defense of peasant agriculture
Bagnolet | 02.11.2022 | La Via Campesina This October, La Via Campesina marked the International Day… Read more →
8th Session of Binding Treaty Negotiations on TNCs: Statement by the Global Campaign
From 24-28 of October, La Via Campesina joined a host of civil society organisations at… Read more →
Binding regulations on business and human rights: Civil Society builds pressure
From 25 to 29 October United Nations member states continued the negotiations to elaborate an… Read more →
Binding Treaty: Revised third draft is ineffectual in regulating human rights violations by companies | Campaign Statement
STATEMENT OF THE GLOBAL CAMPAIGN ON THE THIRD REVISED DRAFT OF THE BINDING TREATY ON… Read more →
Despite Covid-19 limitations civil society drives momentum for the historic UN treaty on TNCs and human rights
The sixth round of negotiations of the United Nations (UN) Open Ended Inter-governmental Working Group… Read more →
Geneva: Via Campesina and allies intervene at the #BindingTreaty negotiations virtually
The sixth session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Open-ended Intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) on Transnational corporations (TNCs)… Read more →
“Food Sovereignty is the flame that will show us the way”, insists La Via Campesina as it marks #16October in a pandemic year
PRESS STATEMENT: 16 October 2020, International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against… Read more →