ETOs Watch Coalition
Monitoring and Focusing on Thai Outbound Investment in Southeast-Asia
Human Rights Beyond Borders
Cross-Border Accountability
States and businesses must be accountable for human rights and environmental harms arising from cross-border investments, regardless of where those impacts occur. Development in the Mekong region must not externalise harm onto communities simply because they live beyond national borders. Accountability must follow capital, supply chains, and corporate power across jurisdictions.
Equal Rights Beyond Borders
workers, ethnic communities, and affected people in neighbouring countries are entitled to the same level of human rights protection as citizens in investors’ home countries. Labour rights, community rights, and access to remedy must apply equally, regardless of passports or borders.
Environmental Rights and the Right to Life
Rivers, forests, land, and ecosystems in the Mekong region are not merely economic resources but foundations of life and livelihoods. The rights to clean water, clean air, safe food, and a stable climate are fundamental human rights that all investment and development activities must respect and protect.
Just and Fair Development
Genuine development requires the fair distribution of benefits and risks. Cross-border investments must not deepen inequality by concentrating profits while shifting social, environmental, and human rights costs onto marginalised communities, women, Indigenous peoples, or countries with weaker bargaining power.
Communities at the Centre
Communities across the Mekong region have the right to information, meaningful participation, and the ability to say no to projects that threaten their lives and environments. Development must be shaped by the voices of affected people—not dictated by corporate or state interests behind closed doors.
Remedy and Justice
People harmed by cross-border investments must have access to effective, safe, and timely remedies. Justice mechanisms must protect victims, community leaders, and human rights defenders from retaliation, SLAPP lawsuits, and power imbalances that silence accountability.
Raise Awarness and Protect the Resource beyond Borders
Transborder People – Environment – Chains of Life
Activities
- Collaborate with Transborder CSOs
- Connect to people
- Conduct the Research
Documentation and Report
- BHR and ETOs
- Case studies
- Insights
“Stop Borderless Profits. Start Borderless Rights.”
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