On the occasion of the fifth session of the UN Human Rights Council open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG), the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity is pleased to invite you to participate in the side event on:
Experiences of international litigation
Lessons learnt for the legally binding instrument
on transnational corporations and human rights
Thursday 17th October, 13.00 – 15.00
Palais des Nations Unies, Geneva (Room: XXII)
Speakers:
Pablo Fajardo, UDAPT (Unión de Afectados por Chevron-Texaco), Ecuador:
Chevron/Texaco case: more than 25 years waiting for justice
Dickens Kamugisha, AFIEGO (Africa Institute for Energy Governance), Uganda:
Total in Uganda: first case using the French law on duty of vigilance
Jan Fermon, Lawyer, Belgium:
Asbestos multinational Eternit case
Moisés Borges de Oliveira e Silva, MAB (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens), Brazil:
Rio Doce case: Vale mining dam collapse
Manoela Roland, HOMA (Centro de Direitos Humanos e Empresas):
Lessons learnt for the Revised draft
Moderator: Micòl Savia, IADL (International Association of Democratic Lawyers)
The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity (Global Campaign) is a network of over 200 social movements, networks, organisations and affected communities resisting the land grabs, extractive mining, exploitative wages and environmental destruction and the border walls industry of transnational corporations (TNCs) in different global regions, particularly Africa, Asia and Latin America. Since 2014, the Global Campaign participates actively in the process towards the UN Binding Treaty on TNCs and Human Rights.
During this side event, lawyers will share there experiences on several emblematic cases that have marked the search for access to justice in different courts and tribunals, including international litigation. These cases allow us to have a horizon of experiences of good practices and challenges encountered, which contribute to the definition of the needs and demands that must be met in the construction of a binding instrument that can respond to these realities.
Interpretation to Spanish and English
Contact: Raffaele Morgantini (contact@cetim.ch), +41796606514
