Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses A Guide for Victims and NGOs on Recourse Mechanisms

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  • The guide
    1. Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Content of the Guide
    2. Judicial Mechanisms
    3. Extraterritorial Civil Liability of Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Violations
      1. Establishing the Jurisdiction of a US Court and Determining the Law Applicable to the Case
      2. Litigation examples in Canada
      3. Establishing Jurisdiction in an EU Member State Court and Determining the Law Applicable to the Case
      4. The Accountability of Parent Companies for Acts Committed Abroad: “Piercing the Corporate Veil”
      5. A look at the National trial procedure
      6. Litigation examples in other states
      7. Additional resources
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9. Additional resources

  • International Commission of Jurists, Corporate complicity & legal accountability, vol. 3: Civil remedies, Genève, 2008
  • International Commission of Jurists, Access to Justice: Human Rights Abuses Involving Corporations, Poland, Geneva 2010
  • International Commission of Jurists, Access to Justice: Human Rights Abuses Involving Corporations: South Africa, Geneva 2010
  • Oxford Pro-bono Publico, Obstacles to Justice and Redress for Victims of Corporate Human Rights Abuse – A Comparative Submission Prepared for Prof. John Ruggie, UN SG Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, 3 November 2008
    http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/opbp/
  • EarthRights International, Transnational Litigation Manual for Human Rights and Environmental Cases in United States Courts – A resource for Non-Lawyers, Rev. Sec. Ed., 2006
  • Business and Human Rights, Corporate Legal Accountability Portal
    http://www.business-humanrights.org/
  • Center for Constitutional Rights
    http://ccrjustice.org/
  • EarthRights International
    http://www.earthrights.org/
  • Environmental Defender Law Center, Corporate Accountability
    http://www.edlc.org/cases/corporate-accountability/
  1. Extraterritorial Civil Liability of Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Violations
  2. Litigation examples in other states
  3. Extraterritorial Criminal Liability of Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Violations