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A proposed amendment to South Africa’s eviction law could weaken protections for people facing eviction, expand the criminalisation of land and housing occupation, and expose those supporting affected communities to criminal penalties.

This interview with Mona Sabella, Coordinator of ESCR-Net’s Corporate Accountability Working Group, was originally published in Spanish by ComunicaRSE. In the interview, Mona discusses the current state of negotiations on the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights, as well as the key challenges and civil society priorities for advancing effective corporate accountability.

Across the world, movements are confronting rising militarization, criminalization, forced displacement, and attacks on civic space. This second article in our Political Education Series explores the Political Economy of Violence as a collective framework for understanding why these are not isolated crises, but interconnected expressions of a global system in which violence increasingly serves to sustain capitalist accumulation, extraction, and political control.