Public Hearing on Business & Human Rights

Input to the Public Hearing on Business & Human Rights of the Parliamentary Commitee on Human Rights, April 16th 2009.

All organizations listed below want to stop the injustice related to business activities in developing countries. European based and/or listed companies must be hold accountable by the European Institutions for human rights abuses committed in the areas of operation. The ECCJ (European Coalition for Corporate Justice) provides legal proposals to tackle this very issue. JEO, CAFOD, IPIS, Fatal Transactions and Global Witness focus on business activities of mining corporations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and collect evidence that due to a lack of European legislation, corporate abuse against local people in mining areas continues.

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