News about Our Work - 19 February 2019 FEMNET is involved in the campaign "Protecting human rights - stopping corporate lawsuits" for a UN-Treaty: On the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos, more than 150 European non-governmental organisations, including the CorA network, are launching a petition against Investor State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) and for a binding UN agreement on business and human rights (UN-Treaty). In doing so, they call on the EU and its Member States to withdraw from trade and investment agreements containing special rights of action and to refrain from concluding such agreements with special rights of action in the future. They also call for legal possibilities to hold corporations accountable for human rights violations. The petition seeks to build pressure on the EU and its Member States to push for a binding UN agreement on business and human rights (Binding Treaty). Europe-wide petition ‘Protecting human rights – stopping corporate lawsuits’: www.stopisds.org/de
