<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Flavio Valente</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Valente@fian.org">Valente@fian.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040">This impinges on our work on the issue of TNCs and the right to health. As you can read in an ad-hoc October <a href="http://g2h2.org/posts/event/2017tncs/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">workshop</span></a> report, one of the approved proposals was “to create an e-group to facilitate the communication and strengthen the
ties of the interested organizations, and other civil society, and social movement colleagues."</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040">If you are interested in joining this group, please refer them to me.
</span><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_5471101687425477594WordSection1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040">We take the opportunity of this message to inform you that the negotiation of the human rights instrument to regulate the activities
of Transnational Corporations and other businesses has entered a critical phase since the October 2017 session of the open ended intergovernmental working group. From the very first moments of the session the EU demonstrated the intention to block the process.
However, the massive presence of victims of Corporate abuses and crimes against human rights, from all over the world, made it very difficult for the EU to justify its attitude. In a last minute maneuver, the EU , with the support of the USA, managed to withdraw
the fourth session from the work plan approved by the working group.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040">To top it off, the EU, in a sneaky move, included a paragraph in the resolution that approves the allocation of funds for different
ongoing UN processes, proposing the blocking the funding for the continuation of the treaty process negotiation. Apparently the EU is isolated in this initiative, but civil society is alerting all allies to join in an effort to neutralize this attempt by the
EU, and to prevent similar future initiatives. The official positions of the Global Campaign and of the Treaty Alliance, the two broad coalitions organized to bring corporate impunity to an end can be found in the links below, with the invite to join their
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-GB">Attempt at Sabotage in New York: the European Union aims to Eliminate the Financing of the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group Entrusted with Drafting a Legally
Binding Treaty on TNCs and Human Rights<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/eng-esp-fr-un-binding-treaty-tratado-vinculante-global-campaign-urgent-statement-comunicado-urgente-de-la-campana-global/?lang=fr" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.<wbr>stopcorporateimpunity.org/eng-<wbr>esp-fr-un-binding-treaty-<wbr>tratado-vinculante-global-<wbr>campaign-urgent-statement-<wbr>comunicado-urgente-de-la-<wbr>campana-global/?lang=fr</span></a>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/2017/dec/19/eu-attempts-sabotage-un-corporate-treaty-process" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.globaljustice.org.<wbr>uk/news/2017/dec/19/eu-<wbr>attempts-sabotage-un-<wbr>corporate-treaty-process</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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