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Principle Seven – Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps
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A Joint Initiative Of. Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps. Investigate and prosecute those corporate actors most responsible for the wrongdoing. Action is needed on two levels to overcome these challenges. First, States should criminalise serious harms under national law and include clear provisions relating to the liability of corporate actors for corporate crimes. Where appropriate, law enforcement should look to develop legal standards and advocate for new laws in this...
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Introduction – Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps
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A Joint Initiative Of. Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps. When corporate actors, including corporate entities or individuals acting on behalf of a corporate entity, commit or are complicit in the commission of crimes linked to human rights abuses, accountability all too rarely follows. It is this impunity gap that. The Corporate Crimes Principles: Advancing Investigations and Prosecutions in Human Rights Cases. Corporate crime is defined in the. The consequences of the statu...
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Principle Three – Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps
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A Joint Initiative Of. Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps. Guarantee accountability and transparency in the justice process when pursuing corporate crimes. Ensure the justice process is as accessible, transparent and accountable as possible, from when the crime is alleged to the close of the case. Many of these cases are brought to the attention of law enforcement by NGOs, whistle-blowers and others acting in the public interest. These actors request State action based on...
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Endnotes – Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps
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A Joint Initiative Of. Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps. For example see: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR),. General Comment 14: The right to the highest attainable standard of health. UN Doc E/C.12/2000/4 para 39 (11 August 2000); CESCR,. General Comment 15 on the right to wate. R, UN Doc. E/C.12/2002/1 para 31 (January 2003); Committee on the Rights of the Child,. UN Doc. CEDAW/C/GC/28 para 36 (December 2010). United Nations Human Rights Council,.
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Principle Eight – Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps
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A Joint Initiative Of. Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps. Use all available legal tools to collect evidence, build cases and obtain the cooperation of critical witnesses in corporate crimes cases. To address this potential imbalance, law enforcement should use all available legal measures to successfully investigate corporate actors and encourage their early cooperation to resolve cases swiftly. Where there is solid evidence of guilt and where permitted by national law, ...
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Resources – Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps
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A Joint Initiative Of. Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps. OHCHR Study and Programme of Work. Commerce, Crime, and Conflict Report. ICAR Legal and Policy Associate. Legal Adviser, Business and Human Rights Team, Amnesty International.
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Principle Five – Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps
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A Joint Initiative Of. Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps. Collaborate widely to ensure accountability for corporate crimes, particularly in cross-border cases. In view of the particular skills and evidence needed to prove corporate crimes, especially in cross-border cases, collaborate as widely as possible both nationally and internationally to build the knowledge, expertise, capacity, networks and contacts needed to tackle corporate crimes effectively. With respect to cross...
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The Project – Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps
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A Joint Initiative Of. Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps. The Commerce, Crime and Human Rights Project ( the Project ) was launched jointly by Amnesty International and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) on 26 February 2014. The Project seeks to identify and address why States and law enforcement are rarely pursuing corporate criminal accountability in human rights cases. ICAR Legal and Policy Associate. Legal Adviser, Business and Human Rights Team...
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The Project – Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps
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A Joint Initiative Of. Commerce, Crime, and Human Rights: Closing the Prosecution Gaps. The Commerce, Crime and Human Rights Project ( the Project ) was launched jointly by Amnesty International and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) on 26 February 2014. The Project seeks to identify and address why States and law enforcement are rarely pursuing corporate criminal accountability in human rights cases. ICAR Legal and Policy Associate. Legal Adviser, Business and Human Rights Team...
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