The European Project “Victims and Corporations” from the Università Cattolica di Milano, publishes new materials and offers training.

The Project, coordinated by the Centre “Federico Stella” from the Università Cattolica di Milano, specifically addressed at applying Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, has published, among other materials, the National Empirical Research Report. The

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Shell faces a new lawsuit before Dutch courts for alleged complicity in unlawful arrest, detention and executions in Nigeria

Together with three other wives of the Ogoni 9, executed in 1995 by the Nigerian military government following an unfair trial, Esther Kiobel has launched a new lawsuit against Shell in the Netherlands, the company’s home country, for its alleged complicity in these crimes.  The context in which these events take place is the violent

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The “Ferrovial” case: human rights abuses against asylum seekers in the Pacific Ocean

Last April, Amnesty International published a report denouncing the Spanish multinational company Ferrovial for complicity in gross human rights violations suffered by people seeking asylum in Australia. The claims relate to the management of an off-shore detention center in the State-Island of Nauru, located in the Pacific Ocean, where the Government of Australia has been

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The Spanish Observatory on Social Corporate Responsibility, with the participation of Indago, has published its Report on the IBEX 35 enterprises’ transparency regarding human and labour rights for the year 2015

The 2015 Analysis examines the quality of the information presented on human and labour rights by the enterprises in their annual reports, sustainability reports and public documents. It concludes that, despite the big words used to express their commitment with human rights, IBEX 35 enterprises fail to inform about the mechanisms adopted to avoid human

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International Conference on Business and Human Rights

Indago presents a paper entitled “Corporate liability and human rights: what responses do civil and criminal liability offer in the EU?” at the “International Conference on Business and Human Rights, International law challenges, European responses”, held at the University of Milan. On May 29-30, the University of Milan hosted the International Conference on Business and

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The UN’s Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) requests States to provide information on State-based non-judicial mechanisms in the case of business-related human rights violations before May 31st, 2017

The OHCHR has launched a series of questions directed to States in the context of the “Accountability and Remedy Project II” (ARP II). The questions address the current practices and challenges with respect to the use of State-based non-judicial mechanisms as a way of enhancing access to remedy in cases of corporate abuse.    

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