• A Peoples Treaty proposal for Binding Obligations on TN...

    The call for a Peoples Treaty on Binding Obligations on Transnational Corporations has been highlighted internationally in a series of activities during the past weeks.

  • Debt, austerity, devastation

    As the creditors get fatter, the innocent are punished. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to big business.

  • Impunity Inc.

    Forty years after Salvador Allende denounced corporate power at the United Nations General Assembly (December 1972), millions of people all over the world are involved in struggles against the human rights violations and the social and environmental injustice generated by transnational corporations.

  • A Landmark Victory for Justice: Biowatch’s Battle with...

    Published by  Biowatch South Africa, this is a book about access to information, the right to know, and action in the public’s interest – a must-read for anyone campaigning for environmental or social justice.
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    The Global 0.001% - State of Power 2013
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    State of Power 2013

    As the world's most powerful corporate leaders and richest individuals gather at the exclusive World Economic Forum in Davos, TNI offers a visual insight into who is dominating the planet at a time of systemic economic and ecological crisis.

 

The Corporate Power project is part of the Economic Justice, Corporate Power and Alternatives Programme. TNI’s Corporate Power project seeks to develop analysis and proposals on how to dismantle corporate power. It plans to bring about a People's Treaty on the operations of TNCS that will include a call for an International body that can impose binding legal obligations on TNCs and end corporate impunity for ecological, economic and social crimes. Read more about this project.

Articles

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Susan George: The Story behind my new Book

Good news for Susan George fans: Her new political satire, “How to win the Class War”, is about to be published. In part one of this exclusive video interview, Susan George talks about the story behind the sequel to The Lugano Report.

Five years of crisis: little learning, continuing risks

Myriam Vander Stichele
Why has there been so little progress or learning from the world's biggest financial crisis? What solutions could really put people back in charge of finance?

States make historic call for UN to implement binding regulations on Transnational Corporations

Brid Brennan
Over 100 social movement and civil society organisations representing hundreds of thousands of workers, peasants, community groups and indigenous peoples have welcomed the historic call for binding obligations on Transnational corporations made by nine countries together with the African and Arab Groups of States.
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Publications

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Transnational Capital vs People's Resistance

How does transnational capital function? Where does it operate? What globalised logic does it follow? What is the magnitude of its abuses and its social, economic and environmental irresponsibility? And what challenge do we see emerge for us, the people?  
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State of Corporate Power 2012

Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.
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European Union and Transnational Corporations

Brid Brennan
David Llistar
Jesús Carrión, Erika Gonzalez, Pedro Ramiro, Juan Hernández Zubizarreta, Tom Kucharz, Francesco Martone
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.
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Events

September 2013

Advancing a new regulatory regime for TNCs and Investment Towards A People’s International Treaty

Invitation to European Parliament Round-Table Advancing a new regulatory regime for TNCs and Investment Towards A People’s International Treaty Thursday, September 5th 2013, 15.00-18.30 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, Room ASP 3G3 (Interpretation : EN, FR, DE, ES, NL, DA, EL, PT, SV, CS, LV, HR)
September 2013

Challenging corporate power

Investment and impunity in an era of crisis. Advancing a new regulatory regime for Transnational Corporations and Investment Towards An International Peoples’ Treaty. GUE/NGL initiative.
June 2013

Multinational Crimes: The Shell Case

As one of Africa's leading advocates and campaigners for environmental and human rights, Nnimmo Bassey stood up and challenged corporate impunity by Shell and other oil companies in his native Nigeria.
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News

EU-US trade deal will lead to a race to the bottom where only big business wins, warns new report

4 October 2013
A report by the Seattle to Brussels Network demystifies the alleged economic benefits of the deal and exposes how it could harm people, the environment and the economy on both sides of the Atlantic.

EU-US trade deal to include 'corporate bill of rights'

26 September 2013
Controversial rights for multinational corporations to sue states, likely to be included in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are causing a political headache for EU and US negotiators, but may also set a precedent for future trade agreements, notably with China.

Pranger für Großkonzerne

6 September 2013
Die Macht der globalen Konzerne in transparente Bahnen zu leiten, ihre Strategien zu regulieren und Straftaten zu ahnden, darum ging es gestern im Europaparlament in Brüssel.
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