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Article

16 Jun 2010

Author:
Mark B. Taylor, Robert C. Thompson, Anita Ramasastry

[PDF] Overcoming Obstacles to Justice: Improving Access to Judicial Remedies for Business Involvement in Grave Human Rights Abuses

There is ample evidence that business activities can have a detrimental impact on human rights…Yet, there are few effective remedies available. In many states, laws to protect human rights from harmful business activities either do not exist or are inadequately implemented…The report is based on the proceedings of a meeting held in Oslo in September 2009 at the invitation of Fafo, Amnesty International and Noref, the Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre. It builds on several years’ work by organizations such as Fafo to map out the existing and potential liabilities for business entities under national and international law and draws from Amnesty International’s extensive research on and knowledge of obstacles to effective remedy facing victims of corporate human rights abuses. It forms part of a larger project supported by Noref...