Joint Statement at the Human Rights Council: Country Situations that Require the Council’s Attention
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Videos of the UN side event organised by the Global Campaign on Wednesday 7th March, 2018, Geneva
On the occasion of the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, Centre Europe Tiers-Monde (CETIM), FIAN International, the Trade Union Confederation of Americas (TUCA), Indonesia for Global Justice, Unión de Afectado/as por Chevron Texaco en Ecuador (UDAPT), the…
Process towards binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights gains support at UN
Download: MP3 (4.2 Mb) The Ecuadorian Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council´s working group in charge of negotiating a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights submitted on Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, the report of the third…
Multinationals pay lower taxes than a decade ago
Big multinationals are paying significantly lower tax rates than before the 2008 financial crisis, according to Financial Times analysis showing that a decade of government efforts to cut deficits and reform taxes has left the corporate world largely unscathed.…
Positive move towards historic treaty on transnational corporations and human rights at UN Human Rights Council
Binding treaty draft text to be discussed in October Geneva, 9 March 2018 This week the Human Rights Council was debating the binding treaty on transnational corporations once again. It was a hopeful sign that, on…
For women’s lives: get out, transnational corporations!
We, women gathered here – peasants, riverine women, extractivists, indigenous women, quilombolas, landless women and women affected by dams and mega-projects – have been daily denouncing – through worldwide actions, and especially on March 8 – about the extreme gravity of…
Video: Support to the Binding Treaty from members of the European Parliament
SIDE EVENT: Reflections towards the UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations with respect to Human Rights
SIDE EVENT On the occasion of the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, Centre Europe Tiers-Monde (CETIM), FIAN International, the Trade Union Confederation of Americas (TUCA), Indonesia for Global Justice, Unión de Afectado/as por Chevron Texaco…
Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador
In March 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metallic mining. But the huge victory of the antimining movement and the international recognition it has garnered may be overshadowed by a current electoral campaign…
Federal Penalties Imposed on Largest Corporations Plunged During Trump’s First Year
Washington, DC, February 13, 2018—Federal penalties imposed on the largest U.S. companies for all kinds of misconduct fell sharply during the first 12 months of the Trump administration, with combined fines and settlements dropping to a fraction of the…
Five ways to transform our economies
SAM COSSAR-GILBERT 12 February 2018 We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars. We live in a world that’s facing many destructive and entwined crises including growing inequality, climate change, poverty, pollution…
Lighthizer: U.S. will soon select an African country for a ‘model’ free trade deal
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer expects the U.S. will soon strike a free trade deal with a “properly selected” African country that will become a model for others in the region, he said on Wednesday. During a…