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<font size="3">Human
Rights Council has decided to launch negotiations on new binding
international norms concerning the human rights responsibilities
of
trans-national corporations (TNCs). Sets up a working group for
that
purpose. The move is initiative and supported by developing
countries, and resisted by developed ones, led by the US.
Developed
countries declared that they will not cooperate with the working
groups... Global economic exploitation through the means of TNC is
of
much higher priorities than human rights abuses.</font>
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<font size="3">Pl see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.alainet.org/active/74982">http://www.alainet.org/active/74982</a></font></p>
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<font size="3">It notes: While TNCs
have a number of binding laws, mechanisms and instruments
available
to defend their interests, only voluntary codes of conduct and
soft
laws exist to control their impacts on human rights and ensure
access
to justice for the victims of their activities.<br>
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Would someone here now question the Northern governments about
their tall claims of protecting human rights, which they use as
obstructionist tactics to block legitimate democratic global
governance in the IG space?<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style:
normal"><font size="3">Or maybe we can have the working group to
be multistakeholder with one third seats with the same TNCs, and
decisions to be taken by consensus... This is the kind of norms
that were tried at the NetMundial and at other IG venues.... Is
it still possible to stay blind to what kind of global
governance architecture is sought to be build by the globally
dominant powers, and how the civil society need to wake up and
take note. <br>
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normal"><font size="3">parminder <br>
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