normas para las empresas, derechos para los pueblos justicia económica resistencia al neoliberalismo

The document advocates for a legally binding UN treaty to hold transnational corporations (TNCs) accountable for human rights and environmental abuses. It highlights the failure of voluntary corporate social responsibility codes and the misuse of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms to challenge public health and environmental laws. Through case studies in Latin America and Africa, it illustrates how TNCs operate with impunity due to gaps in national legal systems and the lack of extraterritorial obligations for home states.

• The document asserts that human rights violations by transnational corporations often go unpunished due to corruption or gaps in local legal systems, state complicity, and the lack of legally binding international rules.
• Transnational corporations use Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism to sue governments over public interest regulations that affect their profits.
• In Mozambique, the company Vale is accused of displacing over 1,300 families for coal mining in Moatize, providing inadequate resettlement housing and facing judicial challenges from the Association of Oleiros.
• In Guatemala, the Spanish company Ecoener-Hidralia is identified as a primary cause of human rights violations since 2010, including the political imprisonment of nine community leaders.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (2016). normas para las empresas, derechos para los pueblos justicia económica resistencia al neoliberalismo. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/foei-atalc-un-treaty-leaflet-2016-spanish-website.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. normas para las empresas, derechos para los pueblos justicia económica resistencia al neoliberalismo. 2016. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/foei-atalc-un-treaty-leaflet-2016-spanish-website.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternational2016normas, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{normas para las empresas, derechos para los pueblos justicia económica resistencia al neoliberalismo}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2016}, month = sep, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/foei-atalc-un-treaty-leaflet-2016-spanish-website.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }