Collective Work

Scope of the Legally Binding Instrument to Address Human Rights Violations Related to Business Activities

ESCR-Net & FIDH has published a Working Draft of the first in a series of 'Building Blocks' that contribute to the negotiations on the content of the...

ESCR-Net releases report of six cases of corporate capture

ESCR-Net have developed a Scoping Report highlighting six cases of corporate capture in different industries and across different regions. The Scoping Report is a preliminary...

Unity Statement produced by the participants in the Asia Pacific Regional Consultation

Unity Statement produced by the participants in the Asia Pacific Regional Consultation on the treaty on TNCs and other business entreprises and human rights. Please download the statement...

First regional consultation in Thailand, FIDH and ESCR-Net Treaty Initiative

FIDH and ESCR-Net will hold the first regional consultation meeting in the framework of their joint Treaty Initiative project in Chiang Mai, Thailand,...

"UN Treaty Process on Biz and Human Rights-Initial Observations by the Int Business Community on a Way Forward"

Draft observations from IOE, BIAC, ICC and WBCD (May 1)

Argues that treaty process must not undermine the "extensive progress" made with respect to the UNGP...

Shaping the treaty on business and human rights: views from Asia and the Pacific

Given the impunity with which corporations in Asia and the Pacific operate, the adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of a Resolution last year to elaborate a binding instrument provides a critical opportunity to advance corporate accountability

Treaty Initiative: First regional consultation in Thailand

FIDH and ESCR-Net will hold the first regional consultation meeting in the framework of their joint Treaty Initiative project in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Cambodian land rights activists released following broad international solidarity

Women human rights defenders and their supporters in Cambodia freed, following a letter sent by ESCR-Net and advocacy by other organizations

Corporate Capture Project sets action plan for 2015-16

The Project Advisory Group of the Corporate Capture Project met in Mexico City

Mexican members strategize on Treaty process to regulate corporate abuses

The ESCR-Net Corporate Accountability Working Group organized a meeting to develop strategies for the new UN process to establish a treaty to regulate corporate violations of human rights

ESCR-Net & FIDH: New Joint Treaty Initiative

New expert legal group to consult around the World and develop content proposal for a Treaty on Human Rights and corporate activities

Guide on extraterritorial obligations

ESCR-Net Corporate Accountability Working Group launches new practitioners’ guide to support the interpretation and application of ETOs in the context of corporate human rights violations