Human rights violations perpetrated by transnational corporations (TNCs) require drastic measures to be taken, and without delay. From experience, the factory disaster in Dhaka, (Bangladesh), on April 24, 2013, caused at least 1,135 dead for about 2,500 survivors, the massacre of 34 minors at Marikana, South Africa, environmental destruction linked to oil exploitation, caused by Shell in Nigeria, as well as the severe damage caused by Chevron in the equatorial Amazon - and countless other companies – prove to sufficiency the urgent necessity of access to justice and obtaining restitution for the victims. This is why Les Amis de la Terre-Togo, with the financial support of Friends of the Earth International, organized; to Lomé, on September 22 and 23, 2021, a training workshop on the treaty process. UN Binding on Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Human Rights. The objective of this meeting is to familiarize 20 actors of the society; civil society and public administration with this theme in order to mobilize them to support the establishment of regulations on the conduct of the activities of transnational companies. This meeting contributes to; mobilization in support of the Global Campaign to Reclaim Sovereignty; of peoples, dismantle the power of transnational corporations and put an end to the impunity.
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