Prof. Karen Bravo and Jena Martin, the editors of The Business and Human Rights Landscape: Moving Forward, Looking Back (Cambridge University Press), are soliciting contributors for an upcoming edited volume: Dying to be Heard: The Impact of Business on Affected Communities.  The edited volume will cover business and human rights from the perspective of the target beneficiaries.  The chapters will consist of first person narratives from individuals and communities who have been or are affected by business operations.  The contributors will facilitate these narratives through interviews with individuals in affected communities.   One aim of the volume is to show that, while many people might be familiar with some well-known business and human rights stories, such as Rana Plaza, or Amazonian deforestation, or Union Carbide, that in fact there are similar stories of affected communities and individuals all around us.  As such. the chapters will reflect the perceptions and experiences of the affected persons and communities.

Interested contributors should contact either Karen Bravo (at [email protected]) or Jena Martin (at [email protected]) with an expression of interest.  No proposal is needed at this time. Preference will be give to those contributors who have pre-existing relationships and contacts with affected communities that have been visited by the U.N. Working Group. (For a current list of countries, see http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Pages/WGCountryVisits.aspx).

All expressions of interest must be received by March 6, 2016.

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