Ms Gabriela Quijano:

One of the particularities of the treaty is that access to remedy would be secured at a state level. What is additional in the treaty is that it would open up or guarantee opportunities to seek remedy in the home states of multinational companies and in other jurisdictions that are not traditionally the jurisdictions where victims would go, for instance, where the acts or omissions leading to the abuses took place. These are often not in the place where the harm was felt but in the state where multinational companies are based or where they or their subsidiaries, or members of the supply chain, committed the acts that led to the abuse. That is one of the added values of the treaty.