United Nations Human Rights Council: Social Movements support a binding treaty that will create obligations for transnational corporations to respect human rights The Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity – a coalition of 190 social…
Public Control on Transnational Corporations & Extraterritorial Obligations: experiences of legal reforms at the national level Workshop Wednesday July 8th 2015 3pm-4:30pm Place des Nations – Permanent Tent (#OccupyUNsquare), Geneva While the first…
On the occasion of the 1st session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group mandated with the elaboration of an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, to be held…
Coca-Cola’s Conduct in India Violate Fund’s Ethical Guidelines For Immediate Release July 1, 2015 San Francisco: Activists from India and Norway are calling on Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global – the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund – to exclude…
Written contribution of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity to the first session of the intergovernmental working group mandated with the elaboration of an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other…
From 6 to 10 July 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will convene an unprecedented process that has the potential of providing new avenues for access to justice for communities affected by human rights violations committed by…
A Friends of the Earth International´s delegation is present in Geneva, Switzerland, where the UN´s Human Rights Council is holding its sessions, aiming to urge several governments to participate in the intergovernmental panel of the Council to start defining…
Joining the expanding list of GMO rejections Due to ‘disappointing yields and poor quality cotton fiber,” the country of Burkina Faso in West Africa is ditching Monsanto’s genetically modified cotton. JeuneAfrique reports that…
From the Brazilian Amazon to the German automakers The production depicts in 28 minutes the daily life of the communities impacted by the Programa Grande Carajás (Great Carajás Programme), the world’s largest iron ore mining project in the…
On occasion of the EU-CELAC Summit, collectives and organisations from Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Brussels during three Days of Mobilization for Peoples Sovereignty against the power of multinational corporations and the Architecture of Impunity established…
On the anniversary of the UNHRC resolution, as states prepare for the first meeting of the intergovernmental working group for the elaboration of a UN Treaty on transnational corporations and human rights (6-10 July 2015 in Geneva), this…
Press release – Monday 8th June 2015 Social movements Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty Against Corporate-led Trade promoted at the European and Latin American Summit A broad coalition ofsocial movements from Latin America and Europe organise three days…