[governance] Fwd: [Members] Fwd: [Post 2015 Women's Coalition] Privatization of Global Governance: Corporate Influence at the UN
parminder
parminder at itforchange.net
Mon Jul 7 01:14:50 EDT 2014
Well, I spoke too soon when I said in my last email "The rest of world
has simply not waken up to this demon, which is making slow but serious
progress, although somewhat clandestinely, against the values and
institutions of democracy. "
People outside the charmed IG circles are indeed now picking up the
dangers of equal footing MSism as being a part of the neolib design to
corporatize global governance. The cat, as they, is out of the bag...
The civil society equal footing MS-ists would no longer be able to
obfuscate their positions and pass off as mainstream civil society. They
are not. Mainstream civil society is for democracy, and is extremely
bothered about the new cult of TNCs dominating global governance spaces.
parminder
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Subject: [Members] Fwd: [Post 2015 Women's Coalition] Privatization of
Global Governance: Corporate Influence at the UN
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:03:00 +0530
From: anita <anita at itforchange.net>
Reply-To: members at justnetcoalition.org
To: members at justnetcoalition.org
The attached report starts powerfully,
"As globalization has compounded the power of large transnational
corporations (TNCs) in recent decade, big
business has consolidated its influence on global governance and the
United Nations in particular. In that multi-
lateral setting, corporate actors have been granted privileged access to
decision-makers, and their interests have
become more prominent as calls for legally binding instruments for TNCs
become more sidelined. In the ongoing
discussions towards a post-2015 sustainable development agenda, the
private sector is positioning itself as the
solution to current global challenges â?? while simultaneously
attempting in other fora to evade UN oversight and
regulation. The embrace of a voluntary â??partnershipâ?? approach has
resulted in a corresponding shift towards a
multi-stakeholder governance paradigm â?? buoyed by big business and the
governments invested in it1 â?? in the
World Economic Forum, the World Trade Organization, and the agencies and
agendas of the UN."
It asserts that
"Labeling all actors stakeholders, as if all were equal and
had the same interest, obscures the power imbalances
between various sectors and the vast differences between
their agendas. It promotes a depoliticized model of govern-
ance that negates the different interests and power struc-
tures inherent in the global economic system."
and
I think the recommendations may be useful - for us to resonate the same
message - albeit more contextually to the aims of JNC - and to
contribute to their website our deconstructions of the state of play in
the digital domain
"*Post-2015
»
Build an intergovernmental accountability framework in the post-2015
agenda, with government-adopted
guidelines and government monitoring. House a monitoring and oversight
hub for â??partnershipsâ?? within a
strong and effective High-Level Political Forum, tasked with monitoring
the implementation of the post-2015
agenda.
Business and Human Rights
» Call for effective international regulation of TNCs through ensuring
the establishment of an open-ended
 intergovernmental working group tasked with a draft mandate, in
accordance with the recent resolution in the
 UN Human Rights Council (HRC).
» Strengthen the central role of the HRC in the business and human
rights discourse, in recognition of its
 unique role to provide global leadership in human rights by
strengthening standards and creating effective
 implementation and accountability mechanisms."
*anita*
*
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Subject: [Post 2015 Women's Coalition] Privatization of Global
Governance: Corporate Influence at the UN
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 16:44:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: kathrynjtobin <kathrynjtobin at gmail.com>
To: post2015womenscoalition at googlegroups.com
Dear colleagues,
Global Policy Forum is pleased to share its new web portal on corporate
influence at the UN, part of a broader research focus on the
privatization of global governance. We have compiled recent GPF
analysis, relevant UN documents, and an extensive listing of reports and
articles by civil society organizations and think tanks, tracking the
consolidation of corporate power in the multilateral setting. As this
work illustrates, corporations and their proxies are transforming the
discourse and/or blocking progressive outcomes in both the UN's
sustainable development post-2015 agenda and the business and human
rights processes, pushing (overtly and/or silently) for
"multi-stakeholder" governance models and voluntary, non-binding
corporate social responsibility commitments. Read more
<http://www.globalpolicy.org/corporate-influence.html>Â on the history
of corporate influence at the UN, its current manifestations, and GPF's
recommendations on reversing the corporate capture of the UN.Â
GPF Briefing 1: Privatizing Global Governance: Corporate Influence at
the United Nations
<http://www.globalpolicy.org/images/pdfs/GPFEurope/GPF__Briefing_1.pdf>Â
Global Policy Forum has undertaken significant research to track and
chart the increasing power and influence of corporations in global
governance settings, particularly the UN. We are pleased to share with
you our new Briefing on Corporate Influence (attached), which includes
main messages and recommendations.
Sign up <http://www.globalpolicy.org/newsletter-mm.html>Â to join the
Global Policy Forum listserv.Â
Best,
*Kathryn (Katie) Tobin*
Global Policy Forum
kathryntobin at globalpolicy.org <mailto:kathryntobin at globalpolicy.org>
www.globalpolicy.org <http://www.globalpolicy.org/>Â
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