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Side event: "Follow the money – How companies are impacting human rights: corruption, payments to rebels, inequitable contracts, tax avoidance, transfer-pricing" (Geneva, 6 Oct)
This panel was a side event during the United Nations consultation on business & human rights: Operationalizing the “Protect, Respect, Remedy” framework.
Panelists:
- Moderator: Justine Nolan (Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales; Deputy Director of Australian Human Rights Centre)
- Edmond Kangamungazi (Economic Justice Programme Officer, Caritas Zambia): "Tax avoidance and inequitable mine contracts - Case study: Zambia"
- Avond W. Stells (Independent researcher on Southeast Asia): "Case study in Cambodia, Kampong Thom province - Plantation development or human rights violations?"
- Seema Joshi (Legal Advisor, Ending Impunity, Global Witness): "Sourcing of minerals from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: Payments to warring parties and supply chain due diligence"
- Christopher Avery (Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre): "Tax avoidance & tax evasion"
- Mauricio Lazala (Head of Latin America & Middle East, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre): "Tax avoidance, tax evasion and payments to armed groups"
[includes links to texts of presentations]