«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations at the UN on the theme of impunity of transnational corporations
INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS 2nd session 24-28 October 2016 [Extract from the declaration] During the first session of the Intergovernmental Working Group in July 2015, the position of extending the future treaty to all companies (local and international) was fiercely defended, regardless of the size and structure of these companies. This is a […] INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS 26 October 2016 [Excerpt from the statement] 23 years of litigation at national and international level and the victims and communities affected by Chevron-Texaco’s operations in Ecuador have still not achieved effective access to justice, as lawyer Pablo Fajardo said here yesterday. Syrian refugees working irregularly in Turkey for […] INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS 2nd session 24-28 October 2016 [Excerpt from the Declaration] The CETIM has been fighting for nearly 20 years in favour of binding standards for transnational corporations (TNCs) and this is one of the main objectives of the Global Campaign. As such, we support the process initiated within the Intergovernmental […] Introduction Since the discovery in late 2010 of one of the largest shale oil and gas deposits in the world, in the Vaca Muerta formation in Patagonia, in Argentina, serious inroads have been made into sensitive areas of the region. Operations carried out by transnational companies with links to State-controlled oil companies have triggered a […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 32nd session June 2016 [Extract from the Declaration] The High Commissioner for Human Rights is supposed to be the guardian of international human rights law. However, we note that there is no reference to binding international human rights instruments or to the United Nations Charter. This distorts the High Commissioner’s analysis on […]
Scope of the future treaty on transnational corporations
Oral Statement on TNCs obligations and Human Rights
Binding standards for TNCs
Argentina: Chevron, Total and Shell environmental violations
Access to justice in the face of TNC violations
