CETIM statements on the impunity of transnational corporations

In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations at the UN on the theme of impunity of transnational corporations

 

Brazil: Environmental crimes and corporate impunity

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 45th session 14 September – 7 October 2020 In a previous statement during this session of the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on toxic waste, Mr. Tuncak, made clear recommendations, based on the manifest deficiency of national regulation on transnational corporates in Brazil, calling for independent investigations into abuses of power […]

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Revised draft legally binding instrument on TNCs

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 43rd session 24 February – 20 March 2020 [Excerpt of the declaration] The revised draft legally binding instrument on TNCs does not respond effectively to the fundamental challenges of globalization and the control sought over the activities of TNCs that violate human rights. Read the CETIM’s oral statement in French Watch the […]

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Final declaration following the 5th session of the Working Group on TNCs

Final Declaration of the Global Campaign to Claim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity in Relation to the V Session of the OEIGWG October 18th 2019 This statement is made on behalf of the Global Campaign to Reclaim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity. The negotiation of the legally binding instrument […]

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Right to development and private security companies

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 42nd session 9 September – 27 September 2019 [Excerpt of the declaration] 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 […]

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