• 16 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva

  

  Assessment of negotiations on binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights

  Anne van Schaik, member of Friends of the Earth Europe, welcomed the participation of the European Union and several of its member countries in the UN negotiations on a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations. Nevertheless, the activist expressed her concern over the fact that this participation was not constructive. Read more

• 8 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva

  

  Extraterritorial obligations vs the classical notion of sovereignty of the States: towards the legally binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights

  “I think it is logical, there should be a sort of parallelism. If you have benefits from all these countries you should also accept to repay in all these countries and allow jurisdiction for the victims in all those countries”, said Apollin Koagne, Senior Lawyer of the Center for the Environment and Development – Friends of the Earth Cameroon, in relation to transnational corporations and their human rights abuses. Read more

• 7 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Week of Mobilization in Geneva

  

  The World March of Women in Geneva: the raw account of the abuses of transnational corporations in poor countries

  Lack of information and illiteracy suffered by local communities in Mozambique are deepened and exploited by big transnational corporations in order to take over lands and water, denounced the activist of the World March of Women in that country, Suzete Marques. Read more

• 7 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Week of Mobilization in Geneva

  

  The case of Wilmar and Bumitama in Indonesia: future Treaty on transnational corporations and human rights should cover the entire supply chain and financiers

  WALHI – Friends of the Earth Indonesia submitted to the Intergovernmental Working Group of the UN Human Rights Council that is negotiating a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations, the case of land and forest fires caused in the country by the production of palm oil. 23 people died in 2015 suffering from serious respiratory infections and 40 million people have been affected in total by the fires. Read more

• 29 October 2016 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva

  

  Final video from Geneva: “The seed of a new Treaty on transnational corporations and human rights is planted”

  Environmental federation Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) commended this Friday the “increasing support, interest and mobilization” in Geneva, Switzerland, during the new round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations, and called to continue mobilizing towards the new stage of negotiations for a “strong and effective Treaty”. Watch video

• 28 October 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva

  

  The cases of Vale and Jindal mining companies in Mozambique at the UN negotiations on transnational corporations and human rights

  “National laws aren’t working. African states, Latin American states, the states of the global South sometimes are much much less powerful than the companies they are dealing with. So it’s really impossible to expect that a state such as Mozambique just go against a company such as Vale”, said Erika Mendes, activist at Justiça Ambiental – Friends of the Earth Mozambique, in an interview with Real World Radio. Read more

• 28 October 2016 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva

  

  Interview with Abu Saker of Palestine

  Human rights violations perpetrated by Israel denounced at the UN

  The representative of the Popular Council for the Protection of the Jordan Valley (Palestine), Abu Saker, warned in Geneva (Switzerland) about the demolition by Israel of Palestinian houses and infrastructure in occupied territories, Israeli violations of numerous international conventions, the stealing of water and natural resources, and abuses by water company Mekorot. Watch video

• 27 October 2016 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva | Berta lives on!

  

  Ongoing international pressure on Honduran government

  Social movements and organizations of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity delivered on Thursday a letter to the Permanent Mission of Honduras in Geneva, where they demand justice over the murder of environmental and human rights defenders in the Central American country. Read more

• 26 October 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva

  

  The need for an international binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights

  A side event titled “Corporate accountability precedents from the WHO (World Health Organization) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its application to the binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights” was held on Monday at the Palais des Nations, UN headquarters in Geneva. Read more

• 26 October 2016 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva

  

  “Governments can’t sue companies, why should companies be allowed to sue Governments?”

  The President of the Board of the Transnational Institute (TNI), and prolific author on global social justice issues, Susan George, denounced on Monday in Geneva the Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, present in the Bilateral Investment Treaties and which allows transnational corporations to sue governments. Watch video

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