This submission is written on behalf of ESCR-Net. Our Common Charter for Collective Struggle identifies impoverishment, dispossession, corporate capture, climate change, environmental degradation, deepening inequality, and growing repression as common conditions faced by people globally. These can be linked clearly to a dominant capitalist system— which prioritizes profits over people and the planet—and is intricately linked to structures of oppression, including patriarchy, racism and long histories of colonialism and imperialism. These structures have been further intensified by skewed State-led development agendas that largely focus on creating environments conducive to private actors doing business without corresponding strengthened regulatory, standard setting and institutional frameworks to ensure corporate accountability.
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