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.
A public letter addressed to the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras calls for an immediate end to the criminalization of five human rights defenders from the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) and for the full implementation of the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) protecting the territorial rights of the Garifuna people. Amid continued State inaction, OFRANEH has set up an indefinite resistance camp outside Honduras’ Supreme Court of Justice to demand action.
