Oct 23, 2009 | Advocacy, Analysis briefs
In this brief, ICJ Commissioner Justice Ian Binnie (photo) describes the progress that has been made – and remains to be made – in developing an acceptable legal liability framework for corporate human rights violations.
In particular, Justice Binnie cites the ICJ’s Expert Panel Report on Corporate Complicity and the SRSG John Ruggie’s framework of “Protect, Respect, and Remedy,” as important advances in defining this framework.
He urges the greater development and use of both criminal and civil theories of liability for holding corporations accountable for violations.
He also calls for victims who have exhausted all local remedies to have access to an international body such as the International Criminal Court.
legalremedies-businessHR-analysis brief-2009 (full text, PDF)
Oct 20, 2009 | Agendas
Seminar: Business, Human Rights and Access to Justice
Warsaw, 20th October 2009
Seminar business rights-agenda-2009 (full text in English, PDF)
Oct 5, 2009 | Agendas
Consultation by the OHCHR
Switzerland-forum business rights-agenda-2009 (full text in English, PDF)
Sep 16, 2008 | News
Today, the ICJ made public the final report of the Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes.
The Panel was set up in 2006 to explore when companies and their officials could be held legally responsible under criminal and/or civil law when they are involved with other actors in gross human rights abuses. The report, comprising three volumes, addresses corporate complicity from the angles of criminal law, the law of civil responsibility and public policy.
ICJ makes public report on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes-Press releases-2008 (full text, PDF)
May 21, 2008 | Advocacy, Non-legal submissions
In defining the scope of a follow-on mandate the ICJ urges the HRC to broaden the focus beyond the elaboration of the “protect, respect, and remedy” framework.
The HRC must also include an explicit capacity to examine situations of corporate abuse, the ICJ says.
HRC-statement-advocacy-2011 (full text, PDF)
