Rights as Usual

human rights & business (and a few other things)

July 2012

  • Michelin in India: Radicalisation against Radialisation

    It is a pleasure to welcome my colleague Dr David Keane as the first guest poster on ‘Rights as Usual’.  David is the author of  Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law (Ashgate, 2007). This post is his. ***************************************************** A wave of ‘radialisation’ in India, or the manufacture of tyres using the radial design, led Continue reading

  • Important Decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice on Labour Rights

    On 6 July, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) delivered a judgment in favour of six migrant banana workers involved in union activities against Mayan King Limited, a company that owns citrus and banana farms, in an appeal coming from Belize brought by the company. The Caribbean Court of Justice is a shared final court Continue reading

  • Running for Bhopal – London 10 K

    In May this year at Middlesex we organised the screening of Bhopali, a powerful film on the terrible consequences of the explosion of the Union Carbide factory in December 1984 in Bhopal, India. On Sunday I will be running the London 10K, raising money for the Bhopal Medical Appeal, a charity that helps alleviate the Continue reading

About Me

My name is Nadia Bernaz and I am Associate Professor of Law at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. I am also the Director of the EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights Law.

My area of research is business and human rights. I look at how corporations and businesspeople are held accountable for their human rights impact through international, domestic and transnational processes.

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