Cape Town, 25 January 2023 – It is with deep anger and sadness that we learned of the brutal murder of our comrade and friend Thulani Maseko on Saturday, 21 January in Swaziland. Comrade Thulani was shot dead in…
The 8th session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Human Rights (Working Group), responsible for the drafting of a legally binding instrument to regulate the activities of TNCs under international law, was held under…
United Nations negotiations for a Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights Our concluding joint remarks of the 8th session Geneva 28 October 2022 I am Julia Fernandes, from the Movement of People Affected by Dams, and I speak…
25 October 2022, Geneva: Yesterday, United Nations member states resumed negotiations in the eighth session at the United Nations (UN) in Geneva with the mandate to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law,…
8th Session of the OEIGWG on the Legally Binding Instrument on TNCs and OBEs with respect to Human Rights – Geneva, Monday 24 of October 2022 The Treaty Alliance, The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power…
Declaration of the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity, in the framework of the 8th session of the UN Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights (OEIGWG) The Global Campaign…
Letter in PDF to download. Guillermo Lasso Mendoza PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR Dr. Iñigo Salvador STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ECUADOR Juan Carlos Holguin CHANCELLOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS CALL UPON…
APRIL 5TH 2022 PL 572/2022 is launched as a breath of fresh air among so many injustices committed against the human rights of Brazilian people, from the ones affected by the burst of dams to workers in corporations. …
PRESS RELEASE Disappointment in the Global Campaign at the presentation of the report at the UN on the latest developments on the Binding Treaty on Transnationals and Human Rights Geneva, 22 March 2022 On March 16, 2022, at…
Subject: Concerns after the presentation of the report of the 7th session of the OEIGWG by the Chair-Rapporteur during the 49th session of the Human Rights Council Copy to: UN Member States Download in PDF Dear Mister Chair, Your Excellency…
The Global Campaign considers that human rights due diligence is a preventive mechanism, necessary but not sufficient to adequately protect the human rights of individuals and communities against the adverse impacts of activities of transnational corporations (TNCs). Human rights…
PRESS RELEASE Global South states and civil society keep up momentum to regulate transnational corporations under international human rights law 2 November, Geneva: From 25 to 29 October United Nations member states continued the negotiations to elaborate an international Legally…