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.
On the 20th July 2018 the Presidency of the open-ended intergovernmental working group has published the draft 0 of the Binding Treaty, which will be discussed on the 4th session of the working group between the 15th and 20th October 2018.
Municipalities are in direct contact with citizens and communities and have often witnessed and suffered the human rights abuses committed by transnational corporations and other business enterprises. They can and must be in the frontline of the elaboration of a binding instrument to stop their impunity. The process towards the Binding Treaty is undergoing a […]