Human Rights

Rights for people, rules for corporations - Stop ISDS

In today’s international system, corporations benefit from far reaching super-rights and have access to special tribunals to enforce them. Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS...

Applying the human rights framework is not a 'development alternative' , it is 'The' road to an alternative development process

Human Rights: Food for a thought not taken lightly Human Rights Reader 443 by Claudio Shouftan, Saigon Vietnam.   APPLYING THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK IS NOT ‘A’ DEVELOPMENT...

Human Rights and Business: Towards a regulation of economic actors?

Human Rights and Business: Towards a regulation of economic actors? 4 October 2017, H 10:00 AM, Fondazione Lelio Basso, Via della Dogana Vecchia,5 Rome, Italy Download programme...

Global Governance: new challenges vs old concerns

The last few weeks of May have been quite intense on the global governance side. The Financing for Development  Forum in New York (22-26 May), the World Health Assembly in Geneva...

Strong call by Treaty Alliance as UN process on transnational corporatons and human rights enters new phase

​SIGN the Treaty Alliance Statement To be successful, the next session should encourage constructive negotiations between States about concrete and detailed elements of the...

World’s largest business association gets direct voice in UN decision making

In an unprecedented and historic move, the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly recently granted observer status to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). The...

Week of Mobilization to #StopCorporateAbuse with a #BindingTreaty

Timed to coincide with the UN Member State negotiations to establish a legally binding instrument to regulate activities by Transnational Corporations, the Treaty Alliance...

Keeping Seeds in Peoples’ Hands. Launch of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2016

Launched at FAO Headquarters, the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2016 warns seeds and biodiversity are under threat as a result of the increasing corporate capture and the...

Statement of the Treaty Alliance on the 2nd session of the IGWG on TNCs and human rights

Statement of the Treaty Alliance on the 2nd session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business...

Open Letter to the President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and to the Heads of States in the Americas

Open Letter to the President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and to the Heads of States in the Americas  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is...

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