Member publications
Guide to Free Prior and Informed Consent
This guide is an introduction to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). It provides basic information about the right to FPIC and how this right can help people to have a say about development projects, such as dams, mines and, logging and other large infrastructure projects, which affect them in some way. We all have the right to decide what happens to our own lands. This principle is protected by international human rights law as “all peoples have the right to self-determination” and linked to the right to self determination, “all peoples have the right to freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development”.
Energy Insecurity
This report documents how three major oil companies are refusing requests by investors, labor unions, NGOs, and even former heads of state to disclose nearly 20 years of payments to the Burmese state, while the ruling generals orchestrate the country’s first elections in 20 years. The report reveals how the companies have misled their shareholders, the public, and governments about their legal ability to disclose their financial dealings in Burma.
Chinese private and public investments in the mining sector in Katanga
Report on the violation of the rights of workers in the chinese companies in katanga and the imbalance in the DRC-China Consortium agreement
ISO 26000- Business as usual
This brief succinctly makes the argument about the business as usual approach that the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has taken in the development of its ISO 26000 standard to address corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices.
Brazil: in perfect harmony with TLWNSI’s concept
Brazil undertakes a historical policy to close wage gaps that stands out for its strong affinity with Jus Semper’s TLWNSI concept for the realisation of living wages.
