Binding Obligations TNCs

Urgent need for binding obligations on Transnational Corporations raised at the UN

June 2011

John Ruggie's proposed guidelines to the UN on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations fail to bring TNCs under any binding law, thefore enabling human rights and environmental crimes to continue with impunity.

Towards an International Tribunal on Economic Crimes

July 2010

"Voluntary" codes and corporate social responsibility (CSR) approaches have repeatedly failed to tackle corporations' human rights abuses and environmental crimes.

 

United Nations and Transnational Corporations: a deadly association

April 2007
TNI
Alejandro Teitelbaum
The United Nations is failing in its duty to control the abuses of transnational economic power.