CorporateWatch Liberia does not invent its standards. The world's governments, the United Nations, the ILO, the OECD, the African Union, and the companies' own financiers wrote them — and Liberia and ArcelorMittal's home states have signed them. This page collects the instruments we cite in our register, our filings, and our clocks, so any reader can check our work against the originals.
United Nations · 2011
The global standard: states must protect human rights, companies must respect them, and victims must have access to remedy. Every CorporateWatch filing is built on its three pillars.
OECD · 2023 edition
The rules responsible governments expect their multinationals to follow abroad — and the National Contact Point system that hears complaints. Our Luxembourg NCP specific instance is filed under these Guidelines.
International Labour Organization · 1998, amended 2022
Freedom of association, collective bargaining, and the abolition of forced labour, child labour, and discrimination — with a safe and healthy working environment added as a fifth fundamental right.
International Labour Organization
The binding treaties behind the principles — including C155 on occupational safety and health, C87 and C98 on organising and bargaining, C138 and C182 on child labour. Liberia's own ratifications can be checked in NORMLEX.
United Nations · 1948
The foundation: every person has the right to life, to just and favourable conditions of work, and to an effective remedy when rights are violated (Articles 3, 23, 8).
United Nations · 1966
Binding treaty law Liberia has ratified: civil and political rights, and economic, social and cultural rights — including the rights to health, water, and just conditions of work.
African Union · 1981
Africa's own charter: peoples' rights to their natural resources, to a satisfactory environment, and to development (Articles 21, 22, 24) — enforceable through the African Commission.
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
The global transparency benchmark for extractives: publish contracts, name beneficial owners, reconcile payments. Liberia (LEITI) is an implementing country — we cite its data throughout this site.
Multi-stakeholder · 2000
How extractive companies must run security — so that protecting a mine never becomes abusing a community. Directly relevant where concession security meets local people.
International Finance Corporation · 2012
The environmental and social standards behind most international project finance — labour, resettlement, community health and safety, and indigenous and cultural heritage protections.
United Nations · 2003
The anti-corruption treaty: bribery of officials by companies is a crime, not a custom. The legal backbone when concessions meet envelopes.
When a clock on our Wall of Clocks asks a ministry or a company a question, the duty behind the question usually lives in one of these documents — or in Liberian law itself. Standards are only paper until someone insists on them. That is the work.