UN Binding Treaty: Reflections of the members of regional and national parliaments from Europe, Latin America and Asia
Monday 14th October 2018, 13.00 – 15.00
Palais des Nations Unies, Geneva (Room XXII)
Last week in Geneva, the EU’s representatives at the negotiations for a United Nations Treaty on Business and Human Rights have failed to genuinely support the development of the treaty, including failing to even show up to one of the sessions.
The UN Human Rights Council’s working group in charge of developing a Binding Treaty on Human Rights and business gathered in its 4th annual session between the 15th and 19th October 2018 in Geneva.
This week the Global Inter-Parliamentary Network in Support of a Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations with Respect to Human Rights gathered in Brussels in a conference co-hosted by GUE/NGL.