Ms Mary Ann Manja Bayang of Indigenous Peoples Rights International was speaking in a workshop at Asia Pacific People's Forum for Sustainable Development (in lead up to intergovernmental UNESCAP Asia Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development or APFSD). Manja is an indigenous person, a human rights lawyer, with two decades of activism and advocacy on Indigenous Peoples rights and extensive engagement in the discourse on Business and Human Rights. She assisted the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2015-2020). Her work experience includes programe management and coordination, research, advocacy and capacity building. She makes her legal services available and pro bono for human rights cases. For more information be welcome to visit https://www.bit.ly/peoplesforumworkshop1 thanks

1. Mary Ann Manja Bayang
March 19, 2021
South Asia Forum on
Business and Human Rights
Corporate Capture
of the United
Nations, the
negotiations on
the proposed
treaty on business
and human rights

2. outline
Understanding Corporate Capture
Corporate Capture in the United Nations
Corporate Capture of the process to elaborate a
legally binding instrument to regulate
transnational corporations and other business
enterprises (treaty on business and human rights)

3. Corporate
Capture
 Corporate capture refers to
the means by which an
economic elite undermine
the realization of human
rights and the environment
by exerting undue
influence over domestic
and international decision-
makers and public
institutions.

4. Understanding Corporate Capture
Corporate
Capture
Community
Manipulation
Economic
Diplomacy
Judicial
Interference
Legislative
and Policy
Interference
Privatizing
Public
Security
Services
Revolving
Door
Shaping
narratives
Capture of
Academic
Institutions

6. Corporation bigger than
governments

7. Corporations bigger than
governments

8. Corporations bigger than
governments

9. CORPORATE CAPTURE
OF THE UNITED NATIONS

10. Corporate Capture of the
United Nations
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change and Conference of Parties (UNFCCC - COP)
and the International Emissions Trading Association
(IETA)
The United Nations and World Economic Forum
Partnership
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
and CropLife

11. Corporate Capture of the United Nations
United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights
and Microsoft Office
Additional Examples
• UNEP -partnerships with ExxonMobil, Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Shell
• UNDP – Cocal Cola on water resource protection
• UN Habitat – Coca Cola and BASF on sustainable urbanization
• UN Global compact of 2000 – promotes responsible corporate citizenship
without obliging companies to adhere to internationally accepted standards
• UN Financing for Development envisions on relying almost solely on private
sector financing and public private partnership in relation to the Sustainable
Development Goals

14. World Health Organization’s Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
 recognizes the tobacco
industry’s irreconcilable
conflict of interest with
public health policymaking;
and measures have been put
in place to protect treaty
processes and
implementation from
corporate interference.

16. OUR DEMANDS
 END CORPORATE
CAPTURE
 PUT PEOPLE AND
HUMAN RIGHTS AT
THE CORE OF THE
NEGOTIATIONS