🚨 NEW joint statement It's time: the EU’s credibility on human rights & climate is on the line. Ahead of the #Omnibus I vote, 140+ EU & non-EU CSOs urge MEPs to back a strong, fair deal that protects workers, communities & our planet, not corporate interests. corporatejustice.org/publications...

#TBT to last week in Geneva 🇨🇭 CIDSE pushed for a binding #UNtreaty that puts human rights above corporate power. After 12 years, affected communities need this instrument to end corporate impunity. Progress is coming, now we need political courage ✊ 🔗https://buff.ly/QZWGnwG

Why are organisations like @Trocaire that work toward social and environmental justice calling for a #bindingtreaty on #businessandhumanrights? Here Quelvin Jimenez from our Guatemalan partner @PAPXIGUA outlines the reasons.

On Day 4 of the negotiations for a #bindingtreaty for #businessandhumanrights @trocaire.bsky.social partner Udiel Miranda, Director of COPAE Guatemala, called on states to support the Chair's proposals for joint and several liability all corporate actors involved in human rights violations.

"Where is Ireland?" At the end of Day 3 of the negotiations in Geneva for a #bindingtreaty on #businessandhumanrights I asked Brid Brennan of the @tninstitute.bsky.social about Ireland's notable absence from the proceedings.

At UN #BindingTreaty negotiations day 2, I had the opportunity to intervene for @cidse.bsky.social @broederlijkdelen.bsky.social @trocaire.bsky.social. We stressed that the proposed Committee under this instrument must enable affected communities to directly raise cases of #humanrights abuses.

On Day 3 of the negotiations for a #bindingtreaty on #businessandhumanrights at the UN in Geneva, we heard a powerful intervention by @trocaire.bsky.social partner the Xinka Parliament's legal advisor Quelvin Jiménez.

As the negotiations for a #bindingtreaty on #businessandhumanrights heads into Day 3, Susana Hernandez of @cidse.bsky.social summarises the first 2 days of the session, where oil-rich Gulf States have been to the fore in defending trade and investment agreements. @trocaire.bsky.social

Incredibly proud to be here in Geneva advocating for a #bindingtreaty on #businessandhumanrights in the company of such a strong and committed defender as Margarita. Those who defend life should be celebrated - instead in our upside down system they are attacked and imprisoned. We need a Treaty.

"We are triply discriminated against: for being indigenous, for being women, and for being poor.’ Human Rights Defender, Margarita Domingo is at the UN this week representing the Council of the Mayan People, defending human rights: www.trocaire.org/news/mother-...

On Day 2 of the 11th Session of negotiations for a #bindingtreaty on #businessandhumanrights, the delegates heard the powerful opening statement from Margarita Domingo, Mayan indigenous woman representing @trocaire.bsky.social partner the Council of Mayan Peoples, which generated applause.

Hugely important work Chris. Wishing you every success in getting a binding treaty for human and planetary rights🙏🏼

Happy to be here at the United Nations in Geneva in the company of @trocaire.bsky.social partners from Guatemala for the 11th Session of negotiations for a #bindingtreaty on #BusinessandHumanRights.

As negotiations on a binding business and human rights treaty approach a critical stage at the United Nations, the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights, Trócaire and partners from Guatemala are making an impassioned testimony at Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade last night.

Sweeping strikes and nationwide protests seized parts of Italy today as pressure mounts on Giorgia Meloni’s government to take a stronger stand against Israel over its war in Gaza.

ICC judges, the UN, Albanese, Palestinian NGOs, who's next? The #Trump administration has launched an assault on international justice - and those who claim to stand for it are missing in action, EU included Joint oped by @amnesty.org & @hrw.org: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Yesterday at the EP, Prof. Jäger presented new evidence: the #CSDDD brings major economic benefits for Europe 🌍 This is about building fairer, more sustainable futures 🌍 Study 👉 buff.ly/ZQDV8QK

Bangladeshi factories using cotton from "companies linked to a Chinese forced labour programme are supplying some of Ireland's major clothing retailers". RTÉ investigation by @joegalvin.bsky.social confirms that Ireland/EU not doing enough on supply chain abuse. www.rte.ie/news/investi...

I was proud to take part in this action by the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights to resist the EU #deregulation agenda and to call on Irish MEPs to stop the race to the bottom and defend #rulestoprotect. This action was timed to coincide with the #BacktotheFuture march in Brussels.

The European Commission is weakening rights & protections, putting interests of big corps ahead of people & planet. As part of the Irish Coalition for Business & Human Rights, we're saying: Stop the race to the bottom! Join us outside Leinster House Tues 23 Sept @ 11am: www.icbhr.org/index.php/20...

I'm joining #BackToTheFuture backtothefuturemarch.org No company doing business in the #EU should profit from poverty wages, child labour or outsourcing to places with weak environmental rules #March4Rights #HoldBizAccountable @foeeurope.bsky.social @eccjorg.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social

📺Now on TV: How the EU's deregulation wave is reversing important progress on climate, the environment and Human Rights - @pauldeclerck.bsky.social on @artefr.bsky.social 🇫🇷 www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12... 🇩🇪 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12... 👉11:05 #BackToTheFuture

The Most Environmentally Imaginative Country Is Under Assault: In Ecuador, President Daniel Noboa’s reforms are opening the door to mining, silencing civil society, and endangering the Rights of Nature https://f.mtr.cool/nbwlezcfpj

The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry concludes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The most significant finding of a UN body to date on genocide against the Palestinians. Full text of the report is here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

An independent UN commission has concluded that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

Front page of today's Irish Examiner. The government must include goods and services in the upcoming Occupied Territories Bill. Well cannot continue to enable apartheid Israel's economy of genocide which is profiting from the mass murder of Palestinians. #OccupiedTerritoriesBill #SanctionsNow

The EU Commission & Member States may dismantle rules that govern companies operating in the EU, that will set progress back many years on: environmental protection, social rights, climate policy & more. We joined 470 organisations to say: We need #RulestoProtect corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/e...

🔥This summer has seen Greece sweltering in 43 °C temperatures and wildfires... and yet the Greek govt continues to offer fossil fuel companies access to its seabed to drill for oil and gas.   We're calling on the EU Commission to finally do something about it. 🧵 www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

Big win 🥳 | PFZW, one of the largest Dutch pension funds, has pulled €14 billion from BlackRock. This follows consistent campaigning from groups like Fossielvrij NL, urging them to sever links with BlackRock over its failure on climate action.

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition. Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.

The European Parliament is negotiating its position on the #CSDDD. We jointly call on MEPs to preserve Review Clause 36-1 in the final text. Removing it would mean indefinitely exempting the financial sector from conducting crucial due diligence. www.fidh.org/en/issues/bu...

Here is what you can do urgently: 👉 Organisations: Add your name to our open letter 👉 Individuals: Sign the petition and email your TDs 👉 Everyone share this campaign and encourage others to use their voice!

“Trapped in an atmosphere of cultural and literal genocide, citizens of Guatemala stopped speaking their native languages for reasons of personal safety.” Great piece on the #Xinka Parliament and indigenous struggle in #Guatemala in the @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/americ...

Ireland attended the emergency Hague Group meeting in Bogotá in July when these six pledges were declared. The pledges represent concrete actions to stop complicity with genocide and uphold international law. We need to make the Govnt sign up to them. my.uplift.ie/petitions/jo... @uplift.ie

See here my blog "Corporate-Powered Genocide: Five Takeaways from Francesca Albanese's Landmark Report" published by @trocaire.bsky.social.

Read our statement: www.trocaire.org/news/trocair...

No Association With Genocide! #oPt Israel’s government is starving Gaza; the European Union must suspend its Association Agreement with Israel : www.eccpalestine.org/european-cal... Sign this petition : www.eccpalestine.org/take-action-... #NoAssociationWithGenocide @fidh-official.bsky.social

Children in Gaza are being deliberately starved. Aid is being blocked. 🍉 The EU must act now: suspend the trade deal with Israel, stop arms exports, and sanction those responsible. ⚖️ ✍️ go.wemove.eu/stop-trade

I have signed - will you? my.uplift.ie/petitions/jo...

This @taxjustice.net report brilliantly connects the dots on corporate tax abuse between Kenya, Ireland, and the wider world. #spéirgorm taxjustice.net/2025/07/17/t...

🚨 In an enormous blow to the Amazon, Brazil's regulator has played into the hands of greedy agribusinesses and ordered the suspension of the Soy Moratorium. 🚨 Traders have just 10 days to comply or risk penalties. bit.ly/4oPyGV0

Three apartments in Smithfield going for €1.2 million. No news in that these days, but in the ad they make a point of highlighting that the units are vacant and have been for three years, and as such no rent caps will apply.

2 yrs ago the Ecuadorian people voted to halt all current + future oil drilling in a particularly sensitive block of Yasuni National Park. To date, only a handful of the block’s approx 240 wells have been closed. The Govt should immediately end oil extraction in the area protected by the referendum

⌛️ We don't have much time left to block the ratification of the toxic EU-Mercosur trade deal. 📣 Let's build pressure in all EU countries to tell our policy-makers #StopEUMercosur Join a stunt or organise your own action locally with help from our mobilisation kit 👉 stopeumercosur.org/take-action/

Please dm me if you can help.

S A V E 📢 T H E 📢 D A T E Human & environmental rights should never be placed at the whim of corporations. But that is what the EU is doing by revising and watering down sustainability laws! We can't let that happen. Join #BackToTheFuture ➕ sign up for updates ⬇️ www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

🚨The ITUC strongly condemns the targeted killing of six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza. We demand: 🛑 An immediate, permanent ceasefire 🕊 Accountability through independent investigations 📢 Freedom for journalists to report without fear 🔗 buff.ly/uv4t9Ux

❗️Families evicted from international protection centres either face unsuitable emergency housing or a challenging rental market. The government must act now to support them. Read the op-ed by our policy and programmes coordinator Cillian Quinn here: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This is huge - the UK is being sued by a coal mining company for acting against fossil fuels. This should be a wake up call for our government, we can't have climate action without dismantling the ISDS 'corporate courts' which exist in 80+ UK investment agreements.