Launching the UN Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC)’s lost archive

We are launching the UN Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC)’s lost archive!

For too long, the Business and Human Rights community overlooked the long history of the people’s struggle to regulate transnational corporations. During my PhD, I struggled endlessly to find the archive of the hub of this struggle, the UNCTC which was established after Allende’s historic 1972 speech denouncing corporate intervention in his government. Years later, I was lucky enough to meet one of the Centre’s employees, who had the archive on a USB stick.

Shortly afterwards, I undertook a fellowship at the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law at Melbourne Law School, where I met Andre Dao, who supervised the building of the website.

The Archive: https://lnkd.in/eNVpQTib

To launch the archive, me and Andre proposed a symposium on the issue, and we were happy to receive the enthusiastic contributions of colleagues now available on TWAILR.

The countributions include:

Between the Lines: What the UNCTC’s Research Plans Reveal about Shifting Power Dynmaics by Kalika Mehta

Transnational Corporations at the Dawn of the Information Society: The UNCTC, Transborder Data Flows, and the Global South by Wanshu Cong

Corporations and the supply chain as political ordering: a story from the UNIDO and UNCTC archives by Caitlin Murphy

Walter Rodney and the radical futures the UNCTC foreclosed by River Baars

The UN must establish a Public Tribunal for Corporations involved in the Israeli War Economy: Lessons from the UNCTC by Shahd Hammouri

I am super grateful to Harris Gleckman for giving us the materials, for Andre Dao for co-leading, and all our wonderful countributors and indeed TWAILR and the Laureate Program.

The opening statement: https://twailr.com/launching-the-archive-of-the-un-centre-for-transnational-corporations-the-struggle-to-put-people-before-profit/

All other countributions can be found on TWAILR.