In Overcoming Barriers to Access to Justice for Corporate Human Rights Abuses, FIDH, ICJ, ECCHR and CCJ offer an overview of the different obstacles to accessing justice and remedy. Individuals and communities who have seen their rights violated by transnational corporations continue to face an unfair burden of proof, high financial costs and limited access to information that could support their claims. The new paper presents recommendations to address these issues through specific drafting language for the Treaty, alongside examples of international, regional and national good practices and laws that could guide the way forward.

A few months before the ninth session of negotiations on the Treaty begins in Geneva, it is crucial that states shaping the text make access to justice for victims their central concern.