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Monday, May 25, 2020
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In response to the COVID-19 crisis, ESCR-Net members called on States to “support negotiations for an international legally binding instrument to regulate corporate power.” On 29 May and 25 June, social movements and civil society organizations, as well as States, will have an opportunity to participate virtually in  informal consultation sessions as part of an ongoing intergovernmental process to fulfill UN Human Rights Council resolution 26/9 to create a legally binding instrument that would regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business.

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Video credits and acknowledgements: Akhona Mehlo – Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), South Africa; Alejandra Scampini – Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER), Mexico / Uruguay; Ana Maria Suarez-Franco – FIAN International, Global; Ananya Ramani – Manushya Foundation, Thailand; Bobby Ramakant – Citizens News Service, India; Debbie Stothard – ALTSEAN-Burma, Thailand; Emilie Pradichit – Manushya Foundation, Thailand; Felogene Anumo – Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) Global; Francisco Rocael – Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj, Guatemala; Kwesi Arnold – Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), Uganda; Maha Abdallah – ESCR-Net Board Member, Global; Manja Bayang – Tebtebba Foundation, Philippines; Nuriya Oswald – Al Mezan Center For Human Rights, Palestine; Radiatu Sheriff – Natural Resource Women Platform, Liberia; Raphaela Lopes – Justiça Global, Brazil; Ryan Schlief – International Accountability Project, Global; Valentina Camacho – Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida, Colombia. Video Editor: Titi Vieragallo; interpretation: Carlota Fluxa