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)
Jan 1, 2008
While businesses and their off icials are sometimes directly and immediately responsible for human rights abuses, allegations are frequently made about their complicity in such crimes.
Jun 28, 2006
The ICJ has convened an Expert Legal Panel to develop the legal and public policy meaning of corporate complicity in the worst violations of international human rights and humanitarian law that amount to international crimes.
Composed of eight eminent lawyers, this legal Panel is the first of its kind on corporate complicity. It will help to clarify the practical content and limits of complicity – an area of uncertainty and confusion. The Panel will develop legal principles to explain when companies should be held liable in law for complicity in international crimes and, where the acts are not sufficient to attract legal liability, whether companies should nevertheless be considered responsible as a matter of international public policy.
The Panel will establish clear legal guidelines for businesses, NGOs, governments and the United Nations, thereby enabling them to identify when businesses have crossed the line and have become participants in international crimes.
Complicity international crimes-Publications-2006 (full text, PDF)
Sep 22, 2005 | Events
Yesterday Secretary-General Nicholas Howen gave a speech at the ‘Business and Human Rights’ Conference in Copenhagen on why there is a need to develop clear, common and binding global rules on corporate accountability and human rights.
