«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
CETIM denounces the activities related to the extraction of gold by an Australian corporation called OceanaGold. The company has been asked to meet its extra-territorial obligations, and Australia committed itself to implement the recommendation made by CETIM and its partners.
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 31st session March 2016 [Excerpt from the statement] We welcome the fact that Australia has agreed to implement the Equator’s recommendation, which notes the need to, and I quote, “strengthen the normative framework for the protection of human rights, including the monitoring, follow-up, investigation and redress of human rights violations committed by […]
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Watch all interventions of the side-event « How to hold TNCs accountable for Human Rights violations? » organised by CETIM, Friends of the Earth International & the Transnational Institute, members of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power, Stop Impunity and Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty.
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 31st session March 2016 [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 the pretext of fighting zebu rustlers […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 31st session March 2016 [Extract from the statement] There are many cases of planned and targeted assassinations of human rights defenders, whether by public officials or private actors. This is what happened on 3 March 2016 to Berta Cáceres, an indigenous leader and defender of the rights of indigenous peoples and the […]
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