Activities towards and Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations which respects human rights as part of the Week of Mobilisations in Geneva in October 2019.

During the period October 11-19 2019 at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Asian and European organisations from the AEPF were among the more than 100 organisations from affected communities, social movements, women’s organisations, trade unions, indigenous peoples, migrant organisations, parliamentarians participating in the activities. The mobilisation brought together delegations from Latin America and Africa in which all contributed to generate a dynamic and constructive environment for the debate on the ‘Revised first Draft of the Treaty on TNCs and Human Rights’.

Please also read an important background article – by Brid Brennan and Gonzalo Berron (TNI)
https://longreads.tni.org/corporate-power-the-david-and-goliath-struggle-of-the-21st-century/

And an article by Dottie Guerrero (Global Justice Now, UK)
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2019/oct/14/crafting-treaty-stop-corporate-impunity-challenges-we-face-fifth-session

and the Final Joint Submission to the Open-ended Inter-Governmental Working Group on the Treaty https://www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/final-declaration-of-the-global-campaign-to-claim-peoples-sovereignty-dismantle-corporate-power-and-end-impunity-in-relation-to-the-v-session-of-the-oeigwg/

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Peoples Mobilisation to Reclaim Peoples Rights over TNCs, Corporate Profits and impunity