Human Rights

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...

Treaty Alliance: UN Treaty must address corporate capture

Treaty Alliance's Statement Rio, 1 May, 2016 | The Treaty Alliance has called on civil society organisations (CSOs) everywhere to take action to combat corporate capture. At the...

Week of mobilization in Geneva to stop corporate abuse

The first session of the open ended intergovernmental working group for the elaboration of an International Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations and other Business...