Episode 32 - Inside the UN Fight Against Corporate Impunity

Published: Nov. 29, 2017, 8:06 p.m.

b"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. \\n\\nTransnational corporations--many with larger economies than the countries they operate in--have enjoyed immunity from charges for destroying the environment and taking human lives. \\n\\nBut Ecuador is leading a fight in the UN to create an international treaty and standards that can change this equation. \\n\\nAt teleSUR's studios in Quito, Abby Martin interviews Ecuador's Permanent Representative to the UN, Mar\\xeda Fernanda Espinosa, about the need for this step.\\n\\nFOLLOW // http://twitter.com/empirefiles\\nLIKE // http://facebook.com/theempirefiles"