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26 Fév 2014

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International Corporate Accountability Roundtable

[PDF] Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps

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Home States rarely take steps to investigate or prosecute their companies for their involvement in human rights violations violations, even if the home State’s legal framework appears to permit such remedies. The victims of corporate abuse continue to demand justice without success...There is a need to build consensus around addressing prosecution gaps at the national level...These gaps include those related to prevention, investigation, punishment, and redress for corporate criminal acts that either are or lead to serious human rights abuses (“corporate crimes”)...ICAR’s Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights (CCHR) project will develop recommendations for State practice in addressing these prosecution gaps for corporate crimes. This work will also inform calls at the international level (e.g. UN declaration, legal instrument, other) for corporate accountability for human rights abuses...

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