Rights as Usual

Every year it is my pleasure to speak at the International Criminal Court Summer School in Galway, where I used to work. This coming June, once again, I will be presenting on corporate liability in international criminal law. Since last year, exciting developments have occurred in the field: the Special Tribunal for Lebanon became the

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  On 23 January 2015 the Appeals Panel of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon decided that the Tribunal has jurisdiction in the contempt case against the media company Akhbar Beirut S.A.L. This is the second decision in which this body concludes that the Tribunal has jurisdiction over a legal person (the first one was in the

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  Business and human rights, as I hope this blog has continuously shown, is a multi-faceted field. It touches upon entangled issues such as corruption, the protection of the environment and wildlife, conflicts, survival, poverty, greed, exploitation, racism, development and many more. Because of this complexity, it is often difficult to grasp the different aspects

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As I discussed in a previous post, the Appeals Panel of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon unexpectedly decided in October that the Tribunal has jurisdiction over corporations in contempt proceedings. The decision was taken in relation to case STL-14-05, a contempt case against a news corporation, New TV S.A.L., and Ms Karma Khayat, the company’s

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  At the end of October 2014, representatives of Ecuadorian victims sent a formal complaint against “the Chief Executive Officer of Chevron and any other corporate officer” of the company to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms Fatou Bensouda. As far as I know this is the first time anyone tries to bring

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  On 2 October 2014, the Appeals Panel of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (described on its website as “the Tribunal of international character whose primary mandate is to hold trials for the people accused of carrying out the attack of 14 February 2005 which killed 22 people, including the former prime minister of Lebanon,

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  It is a pleasure to welcome Damiano de Felice to Rights as Usual. Damiano de Felice is co-Director of Measuring Business & Human Rights, a PhD Candidate at the London School of Economics, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Human Rights. This blog post is his and it

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  Hart publishing has just published Making Sovereign Financing and Human Rights Work edited by new UN Independent Expert on the effect of foreign debt, Juan Pablo Bohoslavksy and my colleague Jernej Letnar Černič. The official book presentation reads as follows: Poor public resource management and the global financial crisis curbing fundamental fiscal space, millions thrown into poverty,

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Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to participate in a debate on the much-discussed business and human rights treaty, co-organised by the University of Notre Dame Law School and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. I was part of the “sceptic” side along with Chris Esdaile from the law firm Leigh Day, while

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On 8 May 2014 the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky as the new Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt. He will take over from Cephas Lumina. I had the pleasure to work with Juan Pablo in the past months as one of the contributors to a book titled Making

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