CLICK HERE OR THE ABOVE BANNER TO SIGN Six years since the Marikana massacre and life around the mine is still dire. We call on ABSA to use it’s power as shareholder in Lonmin and Sibanye-Stillwater mines…
JOIN US IN GENEVA FROM OCT 13 to 20, 2018 2018 WILL BE A DECISIVE YEAR FOR THE BINDING TREATY ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS! BE THERE TO RECLAIM PEOPLES RIGHTS OVER INVESTORS AND CORPORATE PROFITS AND IMPUNITY …
17 August, 2018 Re: Publication of the “Zero Draft” text for the negotiation of a Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, the activities of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other Business Enterprises. (1) We…
This August will be the sixth anniversary of South Africa’s Marikana massacre. On 16th August 2012, 34 striking miners were killed by South African police at London-listed mining company Lonmin’s platinum mine. To show solidarity and to…
Bertrand Sansonnens, of Friends of the Earth Switzerland, on palm oil: “voluntary guidelines do not work, we need binding rules at global level” AUDIO DOWNLOAD: MP3 (8.6 MB) At the end of June, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil…
On 20th July 2018 the Presidency of the OEIGWG published the Zero Draft of the UN Binding Treaty that will be discussed at the occasion of the 4th Session of OEIGWG 15-20 October 2018. The document can be consulted…
Ambassadors level informal consultation about procedural matters WG Binding treaty Statement of the Global Campaign Geneva, 17th of July 2018 Thank you Mr. Chairman, I speak on behalf of CETIM, the Global Campaign to dismantle corporate power and…
Informal consultation WG Binding treaty 11th of July 2018 Statement of the Global Campaign Thank you Mr. Ambassador, I speak on behalf of CETIM and the Global Campaign to dismantle corporate power, a global network representing millions of people from…
Adopted at the Executive Committee on 25 – 26 June 2018 Transnational corporations (TNCs) operate in a judicial and jurisdictional void due to their global reach. There continue to be abuses and violations of human rights…
Position of the “Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power, and End Impunity” in relation to the decision of the Court of Appeals of Ontario, Canada, against UDAPT, obliging it to pay U $ 270,000 to the…
The UDAPT has started a crowdfunding in order to raise CAD $ 350 thousand needed to cover judicial costs that will allow us to appeal at the Supreme Court of Canada and continue in our attempt to…
To Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever Clean up Kodaikanal to global standards In 2001, Unilever dumped toxic mercury in the south Indian hill town of Kodaikanal, poisoning its workers and the forest. It took 15 years of campaigning…