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Fonte original / Fuente original / Original Source: OECD Complaint System Handbook — SIRGE Coalition
What is the OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development?
The OECD is an international, inter-government organization, comprised of member industrialized nations. It seeks to improve lives by serving as a cross-border policy forum to establish evidence-based international standards and to find solutions to social, economic and environmental challenges. Currently, there are 38 member countries.
The OECD provides a non-judicial complaint system that allows communities to raise concerns when multi-national companies engage in business conduct that causes harm. Because the global economy has shifted towards increasingly large-scale agriculture and the extraction of raw materials, multinational companies drive sectors such as mining, logging, and energy. As these large-scale activities inherently alters the condition of land and its ecosystems, these international business activities significantly impact the rights, health, and survival of Indigenous Communities and wildlife across the globe.
In response to the intensification of these activities as the world begins to shift towards a “green” economy, this new desired outcome of international business activities requires seeking new solutions to prevent the further decline of Earth’s ecosystems, protect our non-urban kin, and regenerate the areas previously harmed.
The Securing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Green Economy (SIRGE) Coalition implements transformative solutions to secure the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the global transition to a green economy. With respect to the transition mineral supply chain, SIRGE Coalition focuses on the urgent need to operationalize Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) as enumerated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Leveraging Organizational Presence to Protect the Anonymity of Targeted Earth Defenders
Multinational companies gain leverage when their harmful business practices are conducted abroad. What is out of sight is out of mind. The negative impacts are “externalized” beyond the perception of the consumer. The inverse holds when a few individuals make ecological and human rights violations a focal point of public attention thereby “internalizing,” that is making perceptible to consumers, the previously “externalized” negative consequence. The result of this process has been the targeting of those who defend the Earth, in particular indigenous leaders, with imprisonment and death.
Because the OECD’s NCP Complaint process permits organizations to file on behalf of communities, it offers one avenue for allies to join in solidarity in a way that helps protect against the targeting of specific individuals. It also alerts offending multinationals that the international community is watching and ready to publicize further violations.
Urban Ark Tech (Indigenous Ark Urban Technologies) is organizing a Working Group to conceptualize the conducting of outreach and partnering with communities who would benefit from organizational allies. To learn about the OECD’s publications on transparency, anonymity, campaigning and/or to volunteer, please visit our Defending Earth’s Defender’s page.
SIRGE’s OECD Complaint Materials
SIRGE has produced a handbook regarding the OECD NCP Complaint System. The following is the fact sheet, a summarized framework of the handbook.
The English Handbook. O livro em Portugues. La libreta en Espanol.
