Members of the Corporate Capture Project Advisory Group

The following organizations are part of the Corporate Capture Project Advisory Group:

  • Above Ground: Above Ground is a Canadian NGO that encourages companies to respect human rights. Above Ground promotes access to Canadian courts for those who are harmed by Canadian companies overseas.Moreover, Above Ground encourages the Canadian government to fulfill its legal duty to protect against human rights abuse by the private sector.
 
  • Citizen News Service (CNS): CNS specializes in in-depth and rights-based reporting from the frontlines of struggles for health, gender and development justice, and syndicating content to online and print media. Voices of CNS Correspondents who have lived and experiential knowledge of issues that affect them in daily lives are central to what drives CNS. CNS works closely with National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM: napm-india.org), Asha Parivar (ashaparivar.org) and Socialist Party (India) - green party of India.
 
  • Habi Center for Environmental Rights: The Habi Center for Environmental Rights is a non governmental organization established in 2001. It interests lie mainly in raising citizen's and NGO's awareness of environmental rights and the mechanisms available for  defending them. The Habi Center also assists people in defending their environmental rights. In this regard, the center confirms the importance of effectuating local environmental legislation and improving them to increase the efficiency of civil society's role and the benefits of international conventions.
 
  • PODER: The Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER)® is a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve corporate transparency and accountability in Latin America from a human rights perspective and to strengthen civil society stakeholders of corporations as long-term accountability guarantors. The main problem PODER seeks to address is state capture, whereby an economic and political elite controls public decision-making and effectively limits the realization of sustainable capitalism and democracy for the rest of society. Consequently, PODER believes the rule of law and fledgling democratic mechanisms fail to hold elites accountable. Therefore, it is up to citizens, their communities, and civil society advocates to pressure government and corporate actors in order to right the imbalance of power. PODER advances this work through four main strategies: strategic corporate research, capacity building and accompaniment, advocacy and transparency technologies. For more information please visit: projectpoder.org , rindecuentas.org , quienesquien.wiki.
 
  • Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF): SiLNoRF is network of Community Based Organisations, Civil Society Organisations and Local Non Governmental Organisation that operates in Sierra Leone.  The network is registered as Charity Company Limited by Guaranty with office of the Registrar General of Companies in Sierra Leone.  The Network is a member of the African Network on the Right to Food (AnoRF) who has the Head Office in Cotonou, Benin.  SiLNoRF works to increase awareness on the Right to Food in Sierra Leone in order to make it effective.
 
  • Al-Haq Al-Haq is a Palestinian non-governmental, independent human rights organization that advocates nationally and internationally to promote the rule of law and respect for human rights in the OPT, through legal research, documentation and building capacity to address violations of the individual and collective rights of Palestinians under international law, irrespective of the identity of the perpetrator.
 
  • Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida (Environmental Committee in Defense of Life) contributes to the defense of water, life, and land against threats from polluting extractive projects. They promote the strengthening of collective, participatory, and inclusive criteria with grassroots communities. They foster the creation of a social and plural movement where all those voices, processes, and platforms that desire to contribute to the construction of a society that respects the rights of community and nature may come together. They seek to consolidate as an independent social process, with the capacity to formulate and execute proposals that contribute to the economic, environmental, and political improvement of communities.
 
  • Corporate Accountability Corporate Accountability International is committed to stopping life-threatening abuses by global corporations and increasing their accountability to public institutions and people around the world. As global corporations have grown richer and more powerful than many nations, they increasingly operate without limits on their power or influence. Around the world, global corporations drive government policies, unchecked by strong global policies to protect public health, human rights, and the environment. They envision a more just and sustainable world in which democratic institutions and civil society thrive, unthreatened by corporate interference in policy-making; people can adequately meet their basic human needs for food, water, shelter and good health; the opportunity exists for all people to reach their full human potential; and security is based on cooperation and community.
 
  • Natural Resource Women Platform The mission of the Natural Resource Women Platform is to amplify the voices of under-represented women and design strategies to engage relevant stakeholders in addressing concerns about women rights to natural resources. Since its establishment, the Natural Resource Women Platform has work extensively with rural and urban women to improve their wellbeing, advocate for their rights to land, food, water, housing, work as well as to take part in cultural life.