{"id":3682,"date":"2015-11-30T10:17:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homacdhe.com\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:16:51","slug":"homa-and-other-brazilian-civil-society-organizations-release-open-letter-for-the-un-working-group-on-human-rights-and-transnational-corporations-with-recommendations-for-the-groups-next-visi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/30\/homa-and-other-brazilian-civil-society-organizations-release-open-letter-for-the-un-working-group-on-human-rights-and-transnational-corporations-with-recommendations-for-the-groups-next-visi\/","title":{"rendered":"Homa and other Brazilian civil society organizations release open letter for the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations, with recommendations for the group\u2019s next visit to Brazil."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises was created in 2012, after the end of the mandate of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business, John Ruggie, and aims to promote the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, published by Ruggie in 2011.<\/p>\n

One of the Working Group\u2019s task is to carry out visits to the Member States to report situations such as human rights violations by companies and any progress in human rights protection mechanisms in these States.<\/p>\n

The Working Group is visiting Brazil between December 07th and 17th, and its schedule includes the following cities: Bras\u00edlia, S\u00e3o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Altamira and Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>\n

Despite appeals and orientation from various organizations and social movements of Brazilian civil society, the group is not yet scheduled to visit the Municipality of Mariana \u2013 MG, where a severe disaster (Environmental offense) caused by the breaking of a dam owned by Samarco (Vale S\/A and BHP\u00a0Billiton affiliate) has occurred.<\/p>\n

The full content of the letter can be found, in Portuguese and English, in the links below:<\/p>\n

Letter to the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations – Portuguese Version<\/a><\/p>\n

Letter to the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations – English Version<\/a><\/p>\n

The list of subscribing organizations includes:<\/p>\n

Homa \u2013 Projeto Direitos Humanos e Empresas – Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – Faculdade de Direito,\u00a0<\/em>Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA), Conectas Direitos Humanos, Federa\u00e7\u00e3o de \u00d3rg\u00e3os para Assist\u00eancia Social e Educacional (FASE), Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura Familiar (FETRAF), F\u00f3rum de Trabalhadores por Verdade, Justi\u00e7a e Repara\u00e7\u00e3o, F\u00f3rum da Amazonia Oriental (FAOR), Grupo de Trabalho sobre Propriedade Intelectual (GTPI), Instituto Brasileiro de An\u00e1lises Sociais e Econ\u00f4micas (IBASE), Instituto de Estudos Socioecon\u00f4micos (Inesc), Instituto Pol\u00edticas Alternativas para o Cone Sul (PAcs), Instituto Equit, Internacional dos Servi\u00e7os P\u00fablicos Brasil, Justi\u00e7a Global, Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB), Rede Brasileira pela Integra\u00e7\u00e3o dos Povos (Rebrip), Rede Social de Justi\u00e7a e Direitos Humanos, Servi\u00e7o Interfranciscano de Justi\u00e7a Paz e Ecologia (Sinfrajue) e Terra de Direitos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises was created in 2012, after the end of the mandate of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business, John Ruggie, and aims to promote the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homacdhe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}