October 2013
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Extraterritoriality and Business Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Latest Issue of Journal of Business Ethics
My article on extraterritoriality and business accountability for human rights violations, which was published in November 2012 in the online version of the Journal of Business Ethics (see blog post on this), was selected for publication in the latest completed journal issue. The exact references are: “Enhancing Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Is Extraterritoriality… Continue reading
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Guest seminar at SAIFAC – University of Johannesburg
Today I gave a talk at the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC) of the University of Johannesburg on “Multinational Corporations and the Apartheid Regime.” The Institute is located on Constitution Hill, in the Old Fort where Nelson Mandela was briefly imprisoned in the 1950s. What a… Continue reading
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Should Multinational Corporations be Held Liable for Having Done Business with the Apartheid Regime?
For the next two weeks I am based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg as a visiting researcher. South Africa and its extraordinary transformation from Apartheid to democracy is of course of great interest to a human rights scholar. I spent the week end immersing myself into the country’s troubled past and visited… Continue reading
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Developing Business and Human Rights Indicators – Is It a Good Idea?
Today I am spending the day at the beautiful Cumberland Lodge in Windsor’s Great Park, where an expert meeting on business and human rights indicators is being held. The meeting is convened by an Organizing Committee of four PhD students, all working in the business and human rights field. They, and a research team… Continue reading
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Natural Resource Grabbing and Human Rights – Conference paper presented at the University of Cagliari
This past week I participated in a Conference on “Natural Resources Grabbing: Erosion or Legitimate Exercise of State Sovereignty” organised by the University of Cagliari, in Sardinia. The joint paper my colleague Dr Jérémie Gilbert from the University of East London and I presented there is on “Resources Grabbing and Human Rights: Building a Triangular… Continue reading
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The French OECD National Contact Point Clears Michelin
On 27 September, the French OECD National Contact Point (NCP) published its statement on the specific instance on the operations of Michelin in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu. My colleague Dr David Keane wrote a post on this blog about the complaint at the time it was made, and I have written on the… Continue reading
About Me
My name is Nadia Bernaz and I am Associate Professor of Law at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. 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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- Donations and Democracy – website launch
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- International Cooperation and Solidarity: The Missing 4th Pillar of the UNGPs
- Call for Book Proposals on Business, Human Rights and the Environment
- Corporate (Un)Accountability in the Colonial Era: The Case of the East India Company
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