1. Corporate Accountability

Collective Work

Press Release: UN Experts Raise Urgent Questions and Concerns to Pharmaceuticals, States and WTO on COVID-19 Vaccines Inequalities

Over 280 organizations and social movements united in ESCR-Net - International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), demand urgent answers from the World Trade Organization (WTO), States and pharmaceutical companies to the letters sent by the UN experts raising urgent questions about the measures they will undertake to facilitate universal and equitable access to vaccines. According to the World Health Organization, about 75% of the 5 billion vaccines already administered have been concentrated in just 10 countries, amid a mounting global pandemic death toll.

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Statement: States must act urgently to adopt a legally binding instrument to regulate corporate power

Statement by the Corporate Accountability Working Group on the occasion of the upcoming 7th session of the Open Ended IGWG on a treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights.

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Background document: Corporate Capture of Our Healthcare Systems

 

Corporate Capture of Our Healthcare Systems Derails Health Equity

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ESCR-Net's interventions in the Human Rights Council 2021

During this year’s 47th session of the Human Rights Council, the following members Mihir Mankad(Center for Economic and Social Rights), Debbi Stothard (...

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Amicus reaffirms States’ human rights obligations to adequately and effectively address the climate crisis

On May 6th, several human rights organizations submitted a joint third-party intervention in Duarte Agostinho and others v. Portugal and others, the first climate change case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The intervenors drew on international, regional...

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Urgent appeal: Call for urgent action to secure universal and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

ESCR-Net – International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – a global network connecting over 280 nongovernmental organizations, social movements and advocates across more than 75 countries – submitted an...

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Urgent Appeal on vaccine

Event Summary: Comic Launch: Corporate Capture of the UN

"It is we the people who have the power to stop corporate capture, and we have to—we have no choice." - Bobby Ramakant

>> Brief summary of ESCR-Net's virtual launching event for our comic series

"The Power of the 99% to...

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Background Document - Corporate capture of the United Nations

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Background document on Corporate Capture

Video: ESCR-Net launches a comic series on corporate capture

Members of the Corporate Accountability Working Group, and in particular those engaged with the Project Advisory Group on Corporate Capture, have collectively worked with...

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Corporate Capture Episode 1

Information and Learning Session for Indigenous Peoples on the Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises

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Collective Submission: Draft Treaty on Human Rights and Business

Over the last three months, members of the ESCR-Net Corporate Accountability Working Group (CAWG) engaged in a process of collective critique and analysis of the

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Statement: Second Revised Draft Binding Instrument on Corporate Accountability – Corporate Impunity Must End

The pursuit of ending corporate impunity continues to progress through the second draft of a legally binding instrument, but a strengthening of collective resolve remains essential to its urgent realization.  Only through meaningful participation of States, civil society and

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