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Adjunto el programa en castellano.<br><br><br> the link to see the press conference in live stream (14:00-14:30)
<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/fr/other-events/video?event=20130905-1400-SPECIAL-UNKN" target="_blank">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/fr/other-events/video?event=20130905-1400-SPECIAL-UNKN</a>
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the link to see the round table in live stream (15:00-18:30)
<a href="http://www.guengl.eu/news/article/events/challenging-corporate-power" target="_blank">http://www.guengl.eu/news/article/events/challenging-corporate-power</a>
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<br></pre><h1>Challenging corporate power<b></b>. Investment and impunity in an era of crisis.
Advancing a new regulatory regime for Transnational Corporations and Investment
Towards An International Peoples’ Treaty. <br></h1>
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<h2>Date</h2>
<span>05 Sep 13 - </span>
<h2>Time</h2>
<span>15:00 — 18:30</span>
<h2>Location</h2><a href="http://www.guengl.eu/news/article/events/challenging-corporate-power#" title="Show on map" target="_blank">Show on map</a>
<span>EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. BXL. Room ASP 3G3</span>
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This Round Table aims to deepen the debate on Corporate Impunity, and
introduce key elements in emerging alternatives to Reclaim the Public
Interest and to end impunity of Transnational Corporations. Some of the
primary topics of discussion will be: the creation of an International
Peoples' Treaty; the Call for a World Court/Tribunal on Transnational
Corporations and Extra Territorial Obligations (ETOs); and a European
Parliament register for lobbyists. Concrete proposals for the European
Parliament and civil society joint actions in 2013-2014 will also be
discussed.</p>
<p>
<b>PROGRAMME</b></p>
<p>
<b>15.00 – 15.15 </b><b>Framing the Forum</b></p>
<p>
Gabriele Zimmer - President of the European United Left /Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL)<br>
Juan Ramón Quintana - Minister of the Presidency of Bolivia</p>
<p>
<b>Context and Background<br>
Rationale for Global Campaign and Focusing the International Peoples’ Treaty </b></p>
<p>
Brid Brennan – Transnational Institute - Global Campaign to Dismantle
Corporate Power & End Impunity of Transnational Corporations</p>
<p>
<b>15.15 – 16.00 Session 1: Defending the Public Interest and
Justice in the face of intensifying corporate offensives and attacks on
social, labour and human rights </b></p>
<p>
<b>Challenges & new risks in the intensifying corporate
offensive and deepening architecture of impunity (the global trade &
investment regime - FTAs/BITs (e.g. the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership), WTO Bali package, ISDS instruments &
arbitration industry.</b></p>
<p>
Alberto Villareal – Redes (Uruguay) – Friends of the Earth LAC<br>
Tom Kucharz, Ecologistas en Acción - Seattle to Brussels Network<br>
Moderator: Gabriele Zimmer- President of GUE/ NGL</p>
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<b>European Parliament and political parties' responses - Defending the Public Interest</b></p>
<p>
Helmut Scholz – MEP of the GUE/NGL<br>
Ska Keller - MEP - Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance<br>
Richard Howitt (TBC), Maria Badia i Cutchet – MEPs - S&D Group<br>
Moderator: Erika Gonzalez - Observatorio de Multinacionales en America Latina, Paz con Dignidad (Spain)</p>
<p>
<b>Open Forum - Debate</b></p>
<p>
<b>16.00 – 17.45 Session 2: Constructing an International Peoples’
Treaty on Binding Obligations for Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and
a World Court to Judge their crimes and End Impunity</b><br>
<br>
<b>Introducing the proposal for an International Peoples’ Treaty</b><br>
Alejandro Teitelbaum - lawyer specialized in international economic
relations and former 'expert consultant' on a series of Permanent
Peoples' Tribunals (PPTs) on European Corporations in Latin America
(Argentina-Spain)<br>
Chair: Helmut Scholz – MEP of the GUE/NGL<br>
Moderator: Jan Willem Goudriaan, European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) (tbc)</p>
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<b>Human Rights and Labour Rights violations and corporate impunity</b></p>
<p>
<b>Case 1 – Mining / Extractive Sector</b></p>
<p>
Rehand Desai- Lonmin Support Committee (South Africa)</p>
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<b>Case 2 – Textile Sector</b></p>
<p>
Amirul Haque Amin - President - National Garment Workers' Federation, NGWF (Bangladesh)</p>
<p>
<b>Case 3 - Landgrabbing</b></p>
<p>
Paula Álvarez - Grupo Semillas (Colombia)<br>
Josie Ruffaud - Vía Campesina </p>
<p>
<b>Extraterritorial Obligations (ETOs) </b><b>& Call for a World Court on Transnational Corporations</b></p>
<p>
Rolf Künneman - ETOS Consortium & FIAN International (Germany)</p>
<p>
<b>Case 4 – Privatizing Europe: the case of Greece</b><br>
Maria Kanellopoulou – Save Greek Water Campaign (Greece)</p>
<p>
<b>Challenging Corporate Culture in the EU & UN</b><br>
<b>Olivier Hoedeman </b>- Corporate Europe Observatory - Mandatory Transparency Register & Public-Public-Partnership<br>
Open Forum - Debate<br>
Chair: Helmut Scholz - GUE/NGL MEP<br>
Moderator: Jan Willem Goudriaan, European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) (tbc)</p>
<p>
<b>17.50 – 18.30 Ways Forward</b>*</p>
<p>
<b>Challenges in Advancing the International Peoples’ Treaty</b></p>
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<b>How to contribute to the International Civil Society efforts from the perspective of the European Parliament?</b></p>
<p>
<b>Which political initiatives are proposed towards the EP elections 2014</b><br>
<br>
Gabriele Zimmer - President of GUE/ NGL<br>
Josua Mata - Alliance for Progressive Labour (Philippines)<br>
Juan Hernandez Zubizarreta - Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (Spain)</p>
<p>
<b>GUE/NGL Group in coordination with civil society networks such
as: Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power & End Impunity of
Transnational Corporations!, Bi-Regional Network ‘Enlazando
Alternativas’, TNI, ODG, Ecologistas en Acción, War on Want, OMAL - Paz
con Dignidad, CADTM and Seattle-to-Brussels Network, OIDAHCO.</b></p>
<p>
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* A Video-Conference to link up with the Peoples' Summit about G20 in Moscow is being arranged from 18.00-18.10</p><p>
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