«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
Transnational corporations (TNCs) have become major and powerful actors.
The activities of transnational corporations are a source of multiple human rights violations
In many cases, especially when victims are from the Global South, impunity prevails. TNCs are indeed able to evade national jurisdictions because of the unprecedented economic, financial and political power they command, their transnational character, their economic and legal flexibility and the complex structures they use to carry on their activities.
Since the late 90s, the CETIM is firmly committed to ending the impunity of transnational corporations and ensuring access to justice for the victims of their activities. The CETIM supports social movements, trade unions and organizations representing victims and affected communities from the Global South in their efforts to access the UN human rights protection mechanisms. And the CETIM is involved to their sides in the campaign for new binding international norms to end impunity, providing its support for their participation in the negotiations and the presentation of their proposals.
Access to justice for victims of TNCs
PRESS RELEASE Chile: Violations of the Mapuche People’s Right to Self-Determination Raised Again at the UN Geneva, Santiago de Chile, 25.03.2025 On 20 March 2025, during the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Hector Llaitul Carrillanca, a Mapuche community member currently imprisoned, through his lawyer Alberto Espinoza and with the support of CETIM, […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 58th session 24 February – 4 April 2025 [Excerpt from the statement] ‘In recent years, we have witnessed a strategy of diversion and manoeuvring on the part of the Chair of the said Working Group, which is under the sway of the TNC lobbies and certain powerful States. Their aim is to […]
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Article from the “Revue internationale de droit contemporain” of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, November 4, 2024 (p.38) A UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights to outrule false “green extractivism” solutions: Building a real tool in the struggle for climate and social justice By Erika Mendes (Justiça Ambiental JA!- Friends of […]
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On the occasion of the 10th session of the UN Human Rights Council open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG), the Global Campaign and ESCR-NET organized a side-event, taking advantage of the presence of representatives from social movements and communities directly affected by corporate […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 55th session 26 February – 5 April 2024 We are witnessing a diversionary strategy on the part of the Chair of the Working Party, with the aim of derailing the process and diluting the content of the future treaty. The latest maneuver was an attempt to impose a new resolution aimed at […]
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