The presidency does not have the authority to modify the mandate of this Working Group when it wants to broaden the scope of the draft treaty to any type of enterprise when it should focus only on TNCs.
Campaign for a Binding Treaty
Negotiations for a Legally Binding Treaty on Transnational Companies. What is at stake this month?
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.
Land grabs in Sri Lanka and the struggles in Udugama and Bibele
Land grabbing across Sri Lanka has exploded — villagers are evicted from their homes and land, as farms and forests are taken for tea, rubber, palm oil and banana plantations, and the development of tourist infrastructure such as all-inclusive hotels for mass tourism, all of which comes with huge environmental impacts.
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.
Bunge-Viterra merger has drastic implications for Canadian farmers: NFU, Canada
Just five companies known as the “ABCD group” control 90% of the world grain trade – and the B in this group is about to get much bigger. B is for Bunge, which has announced it is in the process of buying Viterra.
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.
Chevron’s Impunity in Ecuador: Urgent Call from International Civil Society
Press Release, December 11, 2020 In solidarity with tens of thousands of people affected by… Read more →
“In 2020, Brazil did not sow rights; instead the country took lives, with violence and impunity”: MAB
December 10th is celebrated internationally as Human Rights Day because on this day in 1948… Read more →
Brazil: 5 years of injustice in the Doce River basin!
The crime of Samarco, Vale, BHP Billiton destroyed about 670 km of extension of the… 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 →
