Rights as Usual

As announced in a previous post, my book Business and Human Rights. History, Law and Policy – Bridging the Accountability Gap, published by Routledge, has just come out. The book will be launched on 7 December at 6pm at Middlesex University in London. Rae Lindsay, co-head of the international law practice at Clifford Chance will

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It is a pleasure to welcome Dr Chiara Macchi as a guest poster on Rights as Usual. Dr Macchi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) and project associate of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project. This post is hers. It is a shorter version of a paper

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Since yesterday I have been attending an International Conference on Business and Human Rights at the University of Sevilla. The conference is co-organised by the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, the University of Sevilla (Research Project DER2013-41956-P) and the BHRight Initiative. The BHRight Initiative, of which I am a member, is an interdisciplinary academic

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I am delighted to announce that my book, titled Business and Human Rights. History, Law and Policy – Bridging the Accountability Gap, and published by Routledge is finally out. It is available both in hardback and paperback. A book launch will take place on 7 December 2016 at 6:00pm at Middlesex University in London and

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On 15 September, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued a policy paper on case selection and prioritization which might result in business and human rights violations being prosecuted at the International Criminal Court in the near future. When it comes to assessing the gravity of crimes (which has always been

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A special thank you to Irene Pietropaoli for letting me know about this. On 24 June 2016, the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights published its latest Concluding Observations on the United Kingdom in the context of the review of that country’s 6th periodic report. The Committee strongly criticized the human rights impacts austerity

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A Palestinian family, with the support of the ACAT and represented by the Paris-based law firm Ancile-avocats, have filed a criminal complaint against the French company Exxelia Technologies. They claim that the company is at least guilty of manslaughter and possibly also complicit in a war crime. In July 2014, a missile, probably dropped from

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On Friday 20 May I had the pleasure to participate to a workshop on business and human rights, convened by Professor Karin Buhmann at Copenhagen Business School. I presented on the developing notion of corporate criminal liability under international law. I started by setting the scene with 3 basic points: (1) Under international human rights

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Yesterday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) revealed the Panama Papers. The Panama Papers is a leak of unprecedented scale, more than 150 times larger than US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks in 2010. The Guardian has published a short, useful guide to the Panama Papers. In a nutshell, the Panama Papers expose how

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