Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice by Payne, Leigh A.; Bernal-Bermúdez, Laura; Pereira, Gabriel;

Rövid leírás:

Business involvement in human rights violations has been part of the past, the present, and will likely continue in the future. A legacy of impunity has prevailed globally. Using case studies and original datasets, this volume seeks to understand how corporate accountability for human rights violations has been achieved and what barriers persist.

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Hosszú leírás:

The rights of victims to truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition when businesses are involved in past and present abuses are seldom guaranteed. A legacy of impunity has prevailed globally in which economic actors have incurred few legal or financial (indemnity) costs for violating behaviour. Examining cases in Nazi Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Perú, the Philippines and South Africa, this edited volume traces business accountability efforts. It identifies the tools applicable to different country contexts that have facilitated corporate accountability for human rights violations, while also flagging the barriers that persist. This volume presents the past and the present of accountability for corporations complicit in gross human rights violations, and also considers what the future may hold.

This is an insightful and wide-ranging series of papers with a compelling theme

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Tartalomjegyzék:

• List of Figures


• List of Tables


• Notes on Contributors


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1: LEIGH A. PAYNE, LAURA BERNAL-BERMÚDEZ AND GABRIEL PEREIRA: Conceptual Framework for Understanding Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations


• PART I: The Historical Roots of Corporate Accountability


• 2: LEIGH A. PAYNE, MARY BEALL AND AMI HUTCHINSON: The Roots of Corporate Accountability: From the Holocaust and Beyond


• 3: GABRIEL PEREIRA: Corporate Accountability in Argentina: Fighting Corporate Impunity in Provincial Transitional Justice Contexts


• 4: FELIPE COLLA DE AMORIM, RODOLFO MACHADO AND VITOR SION: Accountability for Volkswagen's Role in the Brazilian Dictatorship


• 5: LAURA BERNAL-BERMÚDEZ AND NELSON CAMILO SÁNCHEZ: Innovation from the Bench: Judges, Prosecutors, and Analysts Advancing Truth and Accountability for Conflict-Related Corporate Complicity in Colombia


• 6: MIGUEL BARBOZA-LÓPEZ: Corporate Complicity During the Peruvian Armed Conflict: Developing Archimedes´ Lever in the Case of Campesino Communities


• 7: HENNIE VAN VUUREN AND MICHAEL MARCHANT: Transitional Justice and Economic Crimes: Innovative Approaches from South Africa


• PART II: Ongoing Corporate Accountability Efforts


• 8: TRICIA D. OLSEN: Business as Usual? The Legacy of Transitions to Democracy on Corporate Accountability


• 9: KARINNA FERNÁNDEZ AND SEBASTIAN SMART: Complicity of Companies in Chile's Current Human Rights Crisis


• 10: NANCY R. TAPIAS TORRADO: !Berta vive, la lucha sigue!: Corporate Accountability for Attacks against Human Rights Defenders in Honduras


• 11: RUBEN CARRANZA: Transitional Justice, Corruption, and Mutually Reinforcing Accountability: What the Global South Can Learn from the Philippines


• Conclusion: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Accountability of Corporate Complicity in Gross Human Rights Violations


• Bibliography


• Index

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