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		<title>Past and Present of Corporate Complicity for Financing Human Rights Abuses: The Relevance of the Cassese report</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2010/12/15/past-and-present-of-corporate-complicity-for-financing-human-rights-abuses-the-relevance-of-the-cassese-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominik Zimmermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post by Professor Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky. Dr. Bohoslavsky is currently the Program Director for the LL.M in Global Administrative Law at the University of Rio Negro, in Patagonia, Argentina. He also works as a legal consultant for the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He earned his Ph.D. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=3734&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Draft Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2010/12/07/draft-guiding-principles-on-business-and-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of authors on this blog have followed the progress of the human rights and business agenda at the United Nations over the past few years (e.g. here and here).  The work of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights is coming to a culmination as his mandate expires in 2011.  With this in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=3715&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Council of Europe Report on Human Rights and Business</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2010/10/16/council-of-europe-report-on-human-rights-and-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jernej Letnar Černič</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporations in International Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Council of Europe has recently published a report on human rights and business. It was prepared by rapporteur Mr Holger Haibach. Here is the summary: With globalisation, large multinational companies have faced charges that they are violating human rights, especially in developing countries: child labour in the textile industry, environmental disasters caused by the oil industry, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=3657&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New FIDH Report and the Prospects of International Justice</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2010/08/08/new-fidh-report-and-the-prospects-of-international-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valentina Azarov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights and business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Criminal Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Humanitarian Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), a major umbrella NGO for over 160 different organisations, recently (July 2010) launched &#8220;Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: A Guide for Victims and NGOs on Recourse Mechanisms&#8220;. The guide is comprised of five sections. Each examines a different type of instrument, including intergovernmental mechanisms, legal options, mediation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=3499&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Ruggie Report on Business and Human Rights</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2010/04/29/2010-ruggie-report-on-business-and-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Harrison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporations in International Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Ruggie, the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights has released his latest report &#8211; Report of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights: Further steps towards the operationalization of the &#8220;protect, respect, remedy&#8221; framework.  The 2010 report continues to build on the protect, respect and remedy framework outlined in previous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=3127&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2010/03/29/update-of-the-oecd-guidelines-on-multinational-enterprises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Harrison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises are non-binding principles concerning the conduct of multinational enterprises operating in or from the territories of adhering countries. The Guidelines were first adopted in 1976 as part of the Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises. Today, adhering countries include all 30 OECD Members as well as Argentina, Brazil, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=3056&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A report on Transnational Corporations and the Right to Food</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/10/21/a-report-on-transnational-corporations-and-the-right-to-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jernej Letnar Černič</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporations in International Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York University Students for Human Rights have prepared a report on Transnational Corporations on the Right to Food. The Report was requested by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food &#8216;to inform a multi-stakeholder consultation convening on June 19-20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany on the role of the agribusiness sector in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=2760&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saro-Wiwa Settlement</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/09/10/saro-wiwa-settlement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ole W. Pedersen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporations in International Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On International Law Reporter, Prof. Cogan links to a short piece by Ingrid Wuerth describing the recent settlement reached in the lawsuit before a district court in New York filed under the Alien Tort Statute by the relatives of Ken Saro-Wiwa against Shell. We have previously blogged about the case here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=2499&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Backer on business and human rights</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/08/24/backer-on-business-and-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jernej Letnar Černič</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human rights and business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Larry Catá Backer has recently published in Melbourne Journal of International Law an excellent case note on two recent cases decided by UK National Contact Point under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Here is the title and abstract: Rights and Accountability in Development (&#8216;Raid&#8217;) v Das Air and Global Witness v. Afrimex – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=2375&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Recession and the Rule of Law</title>
		<link>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/04/the-recession-and-the-rule-of-law/</link>
		<comments>http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/04/the-recession-and-the-rule-of-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ole W. Pedersen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights and business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Amnesty International published its 2009 Report on the state of human rights across the globe. Perhaps not surprisingly, the report, inter alia, focuses on some of the effects that the current economic situation has on the respect for human rights. Thus, the foreword by Secretary General Irene Kahn notes that “it is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=internationallawobserver.eu&amp;blog=1127226&amp;post=2229&amp;subd=internationallawobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ole W. Pedersen</media:title>
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