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30 Nov 2011

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National Human Rights Commission of India

[PDF] Feedback Form - Request for Input by National Human Rights Institutions to the 8 December 2011 ICC Submission to the United Nations Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises

The Guiding Principles must focus on tackling the issue of separate ‘Legal Personality’. The principle of ‘Absolute Liability’ developed by Courts in India could be used as a tool to provide legal by corporate activities, including those in conflict remedy to the victims of violation of human rights by the TNCs [transnational corporations].

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Feedback Form - Request for Input by National Human Rights Institutions to the 8 December 2011 ICC Submission to the United Nations Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises

Vedanta Resources lawsuit (re Dongria Kondh in Orissa)