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Press release – States resume historic UN negotiations amidst growing consensus on the need for binding regulations on transnational corporations and human rights

PRESS RELEASE 25 October 2021, Geneva- Today, United Nations member states resume negotiations in the seventh session of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) mandated to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Michele Bachelet, opened […]

Inequalities in the Covid-19 framework

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 48th session 13 September-8 October 2021 On 27 September 2021, the CETIM participated in a debate organised by the UN Human Rights Council on the exacerbation of inequalities in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.

UN Summit on Food Systems: Statement of the social movements

PRESS RELEASE The UN Summit on Food Systems will be held this Thursday 23 September 2021 in New York. CETIM has repeatedly expressed its deep concerns about this Summit, which has been characterised by its opacity and by the capture of transnational agribusiness companies. Many rural social movements and other civil society organisations oppose this […]

Statement by the Global Campaign on the 3rd Revised Draft of the Treaty on TNCs and Human Rights

The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle Transnational Power and End Impunity (Global Campaign) takes note of the publication of the third revised draft of the binding treaty, released on 17 August 2021.

UN Human Rights Council: voluntary standards for multinationals, the lobbying goes on

by Raffaele Morgantini, CETIM’s permanent representative to the United Nations. Article published on the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung website

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