Abby Martin interviews Ecuador's UN representative: The Fight Against Corporate Impunity

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Inside the UN Fight Against Corporate Impunity // Empire_File033

From Abby Martin

"Abby Martin interviews Ecuador's United Nations representative and Chair of negotiations creating a new international instrument to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights and environmental crimes.

Transnational corporations--many with larger economies than the countries they operate in--have enjoyed immunity from charges for destroying the environment and taking human lives.

But Ecuador is leading a fight in the UN to create an international treaty and standards that can change this equation.

At teleSUR's studios in Quito, Abby Martin interviews Ecuador's Permanent Representative to the UN, María Fernanda Espinosa, about the need for this step."

Published on Jul 29, 2016


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Let us make this jumbled story short and sweet. The Governments want the payoffs which the industries provide them, both to individuals in the government and the employment of people of the country. However, the Corporations then abuse the environment and the employees. The solution is for the Governments NOT to make agreements guaranteeing Corporate profits and to have in their agreements environmental standards which, if not kept, will result in steep fines levied on the Corporation plus loss to the Corporation of the mining resources they are getting.