[governance] Human Rights Council acts against corporate impunity

[parminder]

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.

Pl see http://www.alainet.org/active/74982

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.


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?

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.

parminder



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