Civil society members of the Treaty Alliance, The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, and Trade Unions proposal for the Conclusions and Recommendations of the Report of the 4th session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG).
This week, we have witnessed a landmark moment in the UN Human Rights Council. States have begun negotiating the text of the UN treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights.
This represents important progress for the countless communities, workers, and survivors who have struggled for decades to protect their human rights from violations and abuses by transnational corporations and other business enterprises.
On Friday the 19th of October 2018, the OEIGWG will adopt its report of this session, with recommendations and conclusions for moving the process forward. As civil society organisations, we look forward to the report, and recommend the following elements be included:
- An explicit commitment to continue with the 5th OEIGWG session, and as many subsequent sessions of the OEIGWG as are needed to elaborate an ambitious legally binding instrument;
- Informal intersessional consultations, guaranteeing meaningful civil society participation;
- National consultations, guaranteeing civil society participation;
- Publication of a strengthened Draft One based on inputs and comments made on the Zero Draft and during the previous sessions, including the critical inputs made by civil society and affected communities throughout the process;
- A reasonable timeline for additional written submissions by states and civil society on the zero draft.
Last year at the end of the 3rd session, valuable time and energy was wasted by attempts to hold up the process. We call on all States to support the conclusions of the 4th session in view of advancing the negotiations until a bold and ambitious legally binding instrument is adopted.
List of signatories (Updated 18 October 2018 15:00)
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Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth Europe
Friends of the Earth Latin America and Caribbean (ATALC)
Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND)
Friends of the Earth Malaysia (Sahabat Alam Malaysia)
Corporate Accountability International
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
Global Policy Forum (GPF)
France Amérique Latine (FAL)
Brot für die Welt
CCFD-Terre Solidaire
CIDSE (International family of Catholic social justice organisations)
MISEREOR
Conselho Indigenista Missionário (CIMI)
FIAN Germany
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Amis de la Terre/Friends of the Earth France
Ecologistas en Acción, Spain
Lafede.cat – Organitzacions per a la Justícia Global
Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)
Commission Justice et Paix Belgique
HOMA – Centro de Direitos Humanos e Empresas
Friends of the EArth (England, Wales and
Verein SÜDWIND Entwicklungspolitik, Austria
Network Social Responsibility, Austria (Netzwerk Soziale Verantwortung, NeSoVe)
Attac Austria
Attac Denmark
FIAN International
Franciscans International
NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark
Global Justice Now UK
SÜDWIND e.V. – Institut für Ökonomie und Ökumene
CorA – Corporate Accountability: Netzwerk für Unternehmensverantwortung
Society for International Development (SID)
Afrika Kontakt, Denmark
European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ)
Clean Clothes Campaign International Office
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
ActionAid International
ActionAid France
FIAN Brazil
CNPCT (Brazilian National Council of Traditional Peoples and Communities)
CPT Piauí (Brazil)
Labour Behind the Label (UK)
TROCA – Plataforma por um Comércio Internacional Justo (Portugal)
World March of Women-Philippines
ESCR-Net – International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
CAFOD
DKA Austria
Collectif Ethique sur l’étiquette (France)
African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA)
HAND Association
FIDH, member of Treaty Alliance
FIAN Switzerland
Action Solidarité Tiers Monde – Luxembourg
Transnational Institute (TNI)
Amigos/as da Terra Brasil / Friends of the Earth Brazil
NaZemi (Czech Republic)
Justiça Ambiental / Friends of the Earth Mozambique
Pro Natura / Friends of the Earth Switzerland
Movimento dos Atingidos e das Atinas por Barragem (MAB/Brazil)
La Vía Campesina Internacionalg
National Society of Conservationists – Friends of the Earth Hungary
WEED – World Economy, Ecology & Development e.V.
Plataforma Boliviana Frente al Cambio Climático
Friends of the Earth Ghana
Towards Sustainability Association
FIAN Burkina Faso
Confederación Sindical de las Américas (CSA/TUCA)
Red Latinoamericana por el Acceso a Medicamentos (RedLAM)
Union syndicale Solidaires (France)
Observatori Drets Humans i Empreses a la Mediterrània
SUDS – Associació Internacional de Solidaritat i Cooperació
Novact –
Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association
Centre for Natural Resource Governance Zimbabwe
Green Scenery, Sierra Leone
Malden Affected Landowners and Land users Association, Sierra Leone
WoMin Alliance
Center for International Environmental Law
BELA – Friends of the Earth Bangladesh
SETEM Catalunya
Justicia i Pau
International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL)
Sahabat Alam Malaysia – Friends of the Earth Malaysia
Legal Rights & Natural Resources Center – Friends of the Earth Philippines
Les Amis de la Terre Togo
Sustainable Development Initiative / Friends of the Earth Liberia
