[governance] Human Rights Council acts against corporate impunity

[jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr]

Dear Parminder and all

 

If course I strongly suppport this new initiative of the HR Council for "binding international norms on human rights responsibilities of TNCs. And, as a Deveoped Country citizen, I profoundly regret and oppose the support given by my country, France, to the US led offensive against these norms. 

 

But I also question China's rallying support of HR norms !

  

This must lead CS to a balanced critical approach on these norms, both in their wordings and in their applications. 

 

I have some sad examples in mind from chinese ICT corporations -ZTE ans Huawei, both strongly linked to the State- working in Africa. 

 

Another important point is tax evasion or tax avoidance that deprives poor countries from legitimate revenues for providing essential services (Food, health, education) : this is also to be considered as an attempt agains HR !




Best greetings




Jean-Louis Fullsack


 








> Message du 29/06/14 05:29
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> Objet : [governance] Human Rights Council acts against corporate impunity
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>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.
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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?
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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. 
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parminder 
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