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Corporate harm crosses borders; accountability must too: Last week [Oct 12-16], States met for the 12th session of the UN Working Group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights to negotiate a new treaty. A 🧵👇

Business activities can contribute to environmental destruction, human rights violations & harm to communities. This treaty is a key opportunity to: 🛢️Address corporate impunity across global supply chains ⚖️ Strengthen access to justice 🛡️ Protect people & the environment.

Importantly, people and communities impacted by corporate harm must be able to seek justice & effective remedies and reparations, regardless of where a company operates or is based. We called on States to: 🔹Include the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll in the new instrument

We also called on States to: 🔹Ensure the treaty's scope adequately encompasses business activities & human rights harms 🔹 Reiterate the primacy of human rights obligations in the context of investment & trade agreements 🔹 Address conflicts of interest.