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.

Work area:

Alternative Regionalisms

Corporate Power

Democratising Europe

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

Contact

Contact details:

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

Languages spoken:

English

Location:

Long biography:

bridlongbio.pdf

Selected publications

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Recent content by Brid Brennan

The crimes of large corporations

January 2013

Brid Brennan

Architecture of TNC Impunity: , Corporate Economic & Ecological Crimes:

Brid Brennan on the impunity of transnational corporations.

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

June 2011

Brid Brennan

Binding Obligations TNCs:

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

April 2010

Brid Brennan

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.

European Union and Transnational Corporations

November 2009

Brid Brennan

David Llistar

Architecture of TNC Impunity: , Corporate Economic & Ecological Crimes:

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

October 2009

Brid Brennan

David Llistar

Architecture of TNC Impunity: , Corporate Economic & Ecological Crimes:

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

September 2008

Brid Brennan

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.