World Parliamentary Forum

Programme

Sunday 22nd October, 13h30-18h15

13h30-14h – Registration

14:00- 14:20 – Welcome by Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) – GUE/NGL and Manuel Tornare, Member of the National Council of Switzerland, Former mayor of Geneva, Member of the Council of Europe, Swiss socialist Party 

Keynote speaker – Guillaume Long, Ecuador’s Permanent Rep. in UN Geneva (tbc.)

14:20-16:00 – TNCs impunity and the need for an international legally binding instrument to curb it

• Testimony of women struggle to stop corporate impunity – Beatrice Kamau, World March of Women
• Example of TNC impunity – Charles Santiago, Member of the Parliament of Malaysia, Democratic Action Party 
• State of play at Global level – Pablo Fajardo, La Unión de Afectados y Afectadas por las Operaciones Petroleras de Texaco (UDAPT), lead lawyer against Chevron Corporation
• State of play at European level – Adriana Espinosa, European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ)
  
  Q/A with other MP/MEPs and general public

Panel moderated by Fathi Chamkhi – Member of the Parliament of Tunisia, Front Populaire

16:00-16:15 – coffee break

16:15- 16:25 – Second Keynote address by Susan George, President of the Transnational Institute

16:25 -18:00 – Making it real

• The case of Uruguay – Lilian Galan, Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay, Frente Amplio
• The Global Campaign’s input to the binding treaty- Melik Özden, Director of the CETIM
• Understanding the limitations of National Action Plans – Manoela Roland
• The case of Spain – Pablo Bustinduy, Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain – Podemos’ Spokesperson at the Foreign Affairs Committee
• The case of France – Dominique Potier, Member of the National Assembly of France, Groupe Nouvelle Gauche

• The Binding Treaty Parliamentary Initiative – Lola Sánchez Caldentey, MEP GUE/NGL
  

  Q/A with other MP/MEPs and general public

Panel moderated by Brid Brennan, Transnational Institute (TNI) & the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity.

18:00-18:15 – Closing remarks by Anne Marie Mineur – MEP, GUE/NGL, Fathi Chamkhi – Member of the Parliament of Tunisia, Front Populaire and Barbara  Lochbihler – MEP, Greens/EFA.