Transnational corporations treaty must include environment, centre defenders, communities
"Transnational corporations treaty must include environment, centre defenders, communities", 10 April 2026
Much of the current global and environmental crisis is driven by unrestrained corporate extraction and economic models that prioritise profit over environmental protection and human rights…
Frontline human rights defenders, communities and civil society organisations directly facing the consequences have repeatedly warned of the consequences of inaction in response to converging crises, as echoed and uplifted by recent landmark decisions of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights…
ISHR, in partnership with other organisations, voiced support for language that ensures that the scope of this treaty prioritises and provides the strongest protection to both people and the planet over corporate interests.
This would include the urgent need to provide comprehensive, enforceable protection for human rights defenders, Indigenous Peoples, and people working in rural areas and other affected communities, who are at the front line of resisting corporate abuses while simultaneously witnessing systematic repression…
This year will mark five years since the Human Rights Council recognised the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and one year after the delivery of two landmark advisory opinions on climate change by the International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights…
These developments require that we explicitly embed the right to a healthy environment within the LBI…