[Okfn-ca] Fwd: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Governments supportive of public registries of beneficial ownership?

[Diane Mercier]

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Sujet: 	Re: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Governments supportive of public 
registries of beneficial ownership?
Date : 	Sun, 1 Sep 2013 23:36:22 -0300
De : 	Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton.alvarenga at okfn.org>
Pour : 	Open Knowledge Foundation Local Coordinators Mailing List 
<okfn-local-coord at lists.okfn.org>



More interesting information to support this effort with companies

"We see the same democratic deficit in corporations. The majority of the 
world's biggest economic entitiesare now corporations 
<http://dstevenwhite.com/2011/08/14/the-top-175-global-economic-entities-2010/>, 
not countries. They are run by CEOs who are unelected and unaccountable 
to any citizens; they are responsible only to their shareholders, and 
their mandate is to turn as much profit as possible at whatever cost to 
human life or the planet.

These corporations often have more power than the governments of the 
countries in which they operate. One reason for this is that the WTO and 
most FTAs enforce "investor-state dispute agreements" that allow 
corporations to sue local governments for legislation that compromises 
their profits, like minimum wage laws or pollution laws."

 From *The truth about extreme global inequality 
<http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/201349124135226392.html>*, 
by Jason Hickel.

(Marginal note: the excerpt above reminds me the power WTO had to 
influence against a trial of a more liberal copyright law reform in 
Brazil a few years ago. In the "end" we could not make it happen. "End" 
because we will do it someday.)

I recommend to see this video also Global Wealth Inequality 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSxzjyMNpU>.  "The richest 300 people 
in the world are more wealthy than the poorest 3 billion combined, and 
every year rich countries take over 10 times more money from poor 
countries than they give in aid."

Tom

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
http://br.okfn.org





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