In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations at the UN on the theme of impunity of transnational corporations
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Agenda items 2 and 3 Comments on the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: ‘Improving corporate accountability and access to remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses’ [Extract from the Declaration] The High Commissioner for Human Rights is supposed to be the guardian of international human rights law. […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention [Extract from the statement] We are alarmed by the extrajudicial executions to which the population of southern Madagascar continues to be subjected, particularly in the Ankazoabo and Midongy du Sud regions. As we have already denounced in this forum, since 2012, on […]
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Summary: CETIM and AIJD address the two Special Rapporteurs on their joint report to express their concerns about the problem of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the consequences that these have on the human rights situation in various countries. In the statement, CETIM and AIJD raise the case of the murder of activist and […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 3rd session of the Intergovernmental Working Group to elaborate an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises (23-27 October 2017). The Global Campaign to Claim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle the Power of Transnational Corporations and End their Impunity, an international network of which CETIM is a member and which […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 42nd session Many obstacles stand in the way of the realisation of the right to development, starting with unfair trade, the inequitable distribution of wealth, private control over natural resources and their waste, the burden of foreign debt, non-respect for the right of peoples to self-determination and for the sovereignty of States, […]
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