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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Krishnendu Mukherjee, Doughty Street Chambers
"Funding and difficulties in obtaining justice through poor legal systems are the biggest challenges I face in my corporate legal accountability work."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Charity Ryerson, Corporate Accountability Lab
"We need a greater diversity of effective, efficient legal mechanisms if victims are to have meaningful access to remedy. "
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Series Many segments of the business and human rights field have been co-opted & captured by corporate actors
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Benjamin Hoffman, Human Rights Clinic of Columbia Law School: "I am very excited about accountability strategies that push beyond litigation…the adoption of worker-driven social responsibility initiatives is demonstrating the transformative potential of human rights initiatives grounded in rights-holder design, monitoring,& enforcement."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Sophorn Sek, Rights & Business Law Office (Cambodia)
"To hold the perpetrator accountable is complicated, especially in human rights, environmental and cultural cases…Support from lawyers, NGOs in documentation for instance is helpful to assist the community to access justice."
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Series Addressing inequalities of power: Landmark class action seeks justice for 15,500 Indonesian seaweed farmers affected by 2009 Montara oil spill
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Ben Slade, Legal Counsel at Maurice Blackburn (Australia): "It is always important that companies that cause mass injury be called to account, and class actions are one way of doing that works really well. Independently funded class actions add some balance to the playing field [...]"
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Series RWE lawsuit: First test case in Europe to clarify responsibilities of carbon majors for climate change
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Dr. Roda Verheyen, counsel in Lliuya v. RWE AG and Roxana Baldrich & Christoph Bals, Germanwatch: "The Huaraz case represents the first lawsuit in Europe where a person affected by the hazards of climate change has sued a private company, which is the biggest emitter of Europe."
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Series Litigation as a means to push fossil fuel companies to change their climate policies and investments
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Laurie Van der Burg, Friends of the Earth Netherlands and Roger Cox, attorney and partner at Paulussen Advocaten: "With [this possible lawsuit against Shell we are] hoping to create a precedent that raises the legal pressure on oil and gas companies worldwide to act on climate change and keep fossil fuels in the ground."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Jia Yaw Kiu, Malaysian Bar Association & Erik Coubut, Indonesian lawyer
"It would be really helpful to have legislation that clearly spelled out the obligation of business to recognise, uphold and protect human rights of employees and communitites."
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Series Lawyers' insights on corporate legal accountability: Roger Chan Weng Keng
The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Roger Chang Weng Keng, former chairperson of the Malaysia Bar Council Human Rights Committee and chairperson of the Malaysia Bar Council Constitutional Law Committee: "The business community should ensure that their policies are human rights compliant and have an internal accountability test every year so as to ensure a minimum to zero rights violation."
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Series States must seize the opportunity the Guiding Principles offer them to bolster their legislation
Interview with Emmanuel Umpula Nkumba, executive director, AFREWATCH
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