This year, the UN Human Rights Council Working Group that is negotiating the Binding Treaty on transnational corporations and human rights abuses will discuss the technical elements of the future legal instrument. For this reason, the organizations that are part of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity will come to Geneva from all continents to ensure the new instrument holds transnational corporations accountable for their serious attacks against the peoples and human rights. Real World Radio is present in Geneva to bring to you the different voices of social movements and organizations.
The negotiations of the UN Human Rights Council Working Group towards a legally Binding Treaty on transnational corporations and human rights abuses perpetrated by them drew to a close Friday in Geneva, Switzerland. Several social movements and organizations, gathered in the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, welcomed the advance of the process. Nevertheless, they expressed concern…
A new round of negotiations began at the UN in Geneva on Monday, to agree on a legally Binding Treaty that would force transnational corporations to respect human rights. The negotiators will now begin discussing the text of the articles of this future legal tool. “We want to reaffirm once more the historical importance of this process for a Binding…
