Brid Brennan

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Contact details:

Email: brid AT tni.org
Phone: +31 20 662 66 08

Long bio:

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Brid Brennan

TNI's Alternative Regionalisms Programme Coordinator

Brid has put Transnational Institute at the heart of dynamic international networks from every continent campaigning against trade liberalisation. She is co-founder of the European Solidarity Centre for the Philippines and most recently, RESPECT, a Europe-wide anti-racist network for migrant domestic workers.

Areas of expertise:

European trade relations; Transnational companies in Latin America; The Future of Regionalisms; East Asian Democratisation Movements; Sexism, Racism & Migration in Europe; Asia/Europe Relations; Transnational Social Movements

Languages spoken:

English

Recent content by Brid Brennan

Urgent need for binding obligations on Transnational Corporations raised at the UN (1 Jun 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.

Latin America–Europe relations: Time for a new era (29 Apr 2010)

In response to the aggressive corporate-led trade agenda of the EU, social movements from Latin America and Europe are mounting an Alternative Peoples’ Summit, the Enlazando Alternativas 4, which takes place from May 14-17 in Madrid.

Perspectives on regional integration (5 Feb 2010)

The current paradigmatic crisis needs to be dealt with at the regional level. In this respect, Latin American movements have already mobilised and placed different models of development and integration at the centre of their struggle. However, the European Union model, whereby integration is geared towards the interests of transnational corporations, should be avoided.

European Union and Transnational Corporations (16 Nov 2009)

Extensive documentation of the operations of the European transnational corporations in Latin America and the Caribbean and their systematic abuses of human rights is brought to the attention of European policy makers in the European Parliament Hearing held in Brussels on November 18, 2009.

Profit Before People and Human Rights (21 Oct 2009)

The report exposes the role of EU institutions in constructing a complex political and legal architecture which allows European transnational companies to operate with impunity in the region.

Where have all our Human Rights Gone? EU Migration Policy 2008: Response and Resistance (1 Sep 2008)

The Single European Act ratified in 1987, introduces the discussion on migrants in the same paragraph as drug traffickers and terrorists. Ever since, European migration policy has pursued an approach of criminalizing migrants.

Global Europe FTAs (19 Sep 2007)

Petroleum TNCs in Columbia – Death traded for Petrol and Profits (16 Aug 2007)

Por um modelo público de água (24 Jul 2007)

Estão reunidos na obra experiências de resistência contra a
privatização e mercantilização e casos
exemplares de gestão pública da água.

Reclaiming Public Water (Japanese edition) (14 Jun 2007)

Japanese edition of "Reclaiming Public Water" book.