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Countering Corporate Influence

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Multinationals deploy global, complementary and indiscernible influence strategies that go beyond lobbying. Sherpa seeks to counteract and expose corporate capture to ensure that the protection of human rights and the environment takes precedence over the profit-making and private interests of economic players, to restore civil society to its rightful place in the democratic debate.

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Binding and non-binding rules

Sherpa fights to make soft law CSR rules binding, to avoid self-regulation. Until now, soft law CSR rules-laws and texts drawn up by multinationals for multinationals – have only been voluntary, which has allowed them to avoid any legal obligation to respect human rights.

Lobbying and conflicts of interest

Sherpa aims to expose and delegitimise lobbying and conflicts of interest, in order to limit the influence of economic players on the drafting of legislation.

Fairwashing

From fairwashing to greenwashing, Sherpa is striving to ensure that businesses deriving economic gains from unfulfilled CSR commitments can face meaningful legal sanctions.

Negociated justice

Inspired by Anglo-Saxon law, negotiated justice has been developing in our legal system for several years. Far from the stated objective of efficiency, these mechanisms actually make the handling of financial offences less transparent and, above all, allow companies to buy their innocence in return for paying a fine.

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