Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Respect to Human Rights – Article 14 Implementation
Statement Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Respect to Human Rights Fifth session (14-18 October 2019) Article 14 Implementation This statement is made on […]
HRC41: Joint Statement on Business and Human Rights
Joint Statement on Business and Human Rights UN Human Rights Council 41st session (24 June – 12 July 2019) Item 3: Clustered interactive dialogue with the Working Group on […]
HRC34: Oral Statement on Treaties on Corporations and Human Rights Must Include Gender Perspectives
Statement made at the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council (27 February to 24 March 2017) under Item 3: Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, on the Report […]
CEDAW Statement: Creating an International Gender and Peace Agenda: Transnational Companies, Weapons and VAW
For the 64th session of the CEDAW committee, France is going to be reviewed. WILPF issued a report on the violations by France of women’s human rights. We wish have raised three […]
Resolution: Supporting the Development of an International Treaty to Ensure Accountability for Human Rights Violations Resulting from Actions by Corporations
Read the Spanish version below The International Board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting June 2016, Denouncing the militarisation imposed by large corporations, which sometimes use […]
HRC31: Statement on the Elaboration of an International Binding Instrument on Transnational Companies and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights
Declaración oral ante el Consejo de Derechos Humanos sobre la elaboración de un instrumento vinculante en materia de empresas y derechos humanos 31ª sesión del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de […]
Developing the Interpretation of the Covenants Due Diligence and Extraterritorial Obligations
High-Level Panel on 50th Anniversary of Human Rights Covenants Fifty years after the ground-breaking signature of the Covenants on Human Rights these continue to be as relevant and necessary for […]
Statement on the Report of the IE on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order on the Impact of Trade Agreements
WILPF welcomes the fourth report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order. The Independent Expert shed light on the adverse human rights impacts […]
Statement on Contemporary forms of Slavery in Supply Chains
WILPF welcomes this report by the SR on contemporary forms of slavery and its focus on contemporary forms of slavery in supply chains. Regardless of some international normative efforts to […]
WILPF Statement to CEDAW Committee’s Review of Spain – 61st Session – Creating an International Gender And Peace Agenda: Transnational companies, Weapons And VAW
In this globalized world, human rights violations are cross-bordering and they cannot be successfully addressed if the response does not take into account this transnational nature. As a consequence, the […]