Webinar Series on Corporate Capture

In the Common Charter for Collective Struggle, ESCR-Net’s social movements and NGO members identified corporate capture of government institutions and decision-making as one of the five global conditions undermining the human rights of communities around the world.

In this first webinar, ESCR-Net’s Corporate Accountability Working Group introduced “corporate capture” and its eight manifestations. Two members, Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida and Corporate Accountability, presented cases from Colombia and the United States that embody corporate capture in some of its different manifestations.

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In this webinar, ESCR-Net members focused on community manipulation, one of the eight manifestations of corporate capture identified by network members. With cases from Colombia, Mexico,  and Thailand, the webinar explored trends related to community manipulation. It foregrounded the strategies organizations use to defend human rights in the face of corporate power.