ICAR, Amnesty International, and OHCHR announce collaboration

Joint Statement

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), Amnesty International, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) are pleased to announce their intention to collaborate on research and consultation activities relating to the legal and practical challenges faced by domestic prosecution authorities in  cases of allegations of business involvement in severe human rights abuses.

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CCHR Project Updates: 13 April 2015

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable and Amnesty International are pleased to offer the following project updates as of 13 April.

  1. Joint Statement announcing collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), Amnesty International, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) are pleased to announce their intention to collaborate on research and consultation activities relating to the legal and practical challenges faced by domestic prosecution authorities in  cases of allegations of business involvement in severe human rights abuses.

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Blog: Corporate Impunity: A Startling Ethical Anomaly

By James Stewart

This post originally appeared on the International Center for Transitional Justice website.

Impunity isn’t a single phenomenon; it means different things from one context to the next. Corporate impunity—by far the most entrenched kind—follows its own separate logic. When I first came to international criminal justice fifteen years ago, I confess that I found “the fight against impunity” a slightly blunt slogan that sometimes glossed over important political nuances, a little like Carl Schmitt’s claim that appeals to “humanity” are cheating. Continue reading “Blog: Corporate Impunity: A Startling Ethical Anomaly”