Why do we fight for real #CorporateAccountability?

There are many successful businesses around the world, but too often people don’t know that behind their "success" might be violations of human rights and environmental damage contributing to climate change!

Contaminated water, compromised health, and lawsuits filed against brave human rights defenders. Those are just some of the real and serious issues caused by companies in local communities. And while the people suffer, the capitalists are getting only wealthier. What makes it even worse? They don’t take any responsibility!

That is why we demand real #CorporateAccountability — we want those businesses to be responsible for all of their human rights violations, including on minorities and marginalized groups. Manushya Foundation supports and allies with local communities facing corporate abuse, fighting for their rights and saving the environment.

How do we do that? For example, Manushya Foundation works alongside a local community from Central Thailand, calling for #JusticeForPhichit after a gold mine destroyed the people’s health, livelihoods, and the environment. We also support the survivors of the Attapeu dam collapse in Laos and we recently achieved a great victory and created a legal precedent in Thailand when Manushya’s Human Rights Campaign Advisor Nada Chaiyajit was recognized as a human rights defender in the SLAPP case filed against her by a powerful Thai businessman! The criminal court dismissed the case in favor of human rights protection and we hope this new jurisprudence can bring justice to many more human rights defenders being unfairly judicially harassed for speaking their truth against corporate impunity!

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Learn more about our fight for real #CorporateAccountability and our impact:

• #WIN ⚖️🏳️‍🌈 Today is a Victory! We #StopSLAPP and #SaveNada!, 21 December 2022

• #JusticeForPhichit: Digital campaign supporting Manushya Foundation’s efforts on the Phichit case.

• #UNForumBHR: Manushya & Human Rights Advocates call on countries to #StopNAPping at #UNForumBHR 2022!, 23 December 2022

• #UNForumBHR: Emilie Pradichit denounces corporate capture & calls for anti-SLAPP legislation at #UNForumBHR 2022, 20 December 2022

• #BizHumanRights #StopSLAPP: Nada spoke up to protect Human Rights Defenders at the #UNForumBHR 2022!, 14 December 2022

• #UNForumBHR: Manushya pushes back against corporate capture & abuse at #UNForumBHR!, 9 December 2022

• #UNForumBHR: Manushya Foundation is at the 11th UN Forum on Business & Human Rights in Geneva!, 29 November 2022

• #SaveNada: Why Are We Seeking Justice Before the UN for Nada Chaiyajit?, 11 October 2022

• #SaveNada: UN Complaint for Urgent Action to the United Nations on the Judicial Harassment faced by Nada Chaiyajit, Thai Human Rights Defender, 7 December 2022

• Thailand: What is a NAP-BHR & Why We Don’t Want It?, 7 October 2022

• #StopSLAPP: Women Human Rights Defenders push back against SLAPP charges!, 29 September 2022

• #AsiaWakeUp: #RBHRF2022 is over and our demand is clear: It’s time for Thailand to #StopNAP-ping!, 22 September 2022

• VIDEO: We need the legally #BindingTreaty ensuring companies conduct mandatory human rights due diligence!, 20 September 2022

• SLAPPed: Phichit Villagers Push Back Against Corporate Harassment & Intimidation!, 6 September 2022

• Free trade agreements: Corporate greed makes the right to water of Phichit villagers distant reality, 29 April 2022

• Follow-Up UN Complaint to seek Justice for the Survivors of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Dam collapse in Attapeu Province, Laos, 28 February 2022

• Joint Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR): Land-related rights, forest conservation laws and climate change policies, 25 March 2021

• Read our UPR Factsheet People and Planet over Profit, 13 September 2021

• Read UPR Factsheet on Adverse Impact of Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements, 29 September 2021

References:

• Manushya Foundation, Free trade agreements: Corporate greed makes the right to water of Phichit villagers distant reality (29 April 2022), available at: https://www.manushyafoundation.org/post/free-trade-agreements-corporate-greed-makes-the-right-to-water-of-phichit-villagers-distant-reality

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