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oapen-20.500.12657-557692024-04-19T09:26:20Z Achieving Access to Justice in a Business and Human Rights Context Rouas, Virginie Access to justice, corporate accountability, Europe, France, Netherlands, human rights, business and human rights, human rights due diligence, civil-law countries, European law, law, MNE, multi-national enterprises, abuse, big business, oil spill Achieving Access to Justice in a Business and Human Rights Context explores the interplay between access to justice and business and human rights- a growing area of international human rights law- in European civil-law countries. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) can contribute to economic prosperity and social development in the countries where they operate. At the same time, their activities may directly or indirectly cause harm to humans and to the environment. However, MNEs are rarely held accountable for their involvement in human rights abuses and environmental damage. In recent years, activists have challenged corporate impunity by introducing innovative claims seeking to hold parent companies directly liable for the harm caused by their group’s activities. They have also strategically used this type of litigation to trigger corporate accountability reforms at international, regional, and national levels. Using national litigation experiences as a starting point and focusing on European civil-law countries, the book evaluates the extent to which litigation against MNEs has been effective in achieving access to justice and corporate accountability. It also considers whether ongoing regulatory developments, such as the adoption of mandatory human rights due diligence norms and the negotiations for a business and human rights treaty, can contribute to the realisation of access to justice and corporate accountability in the future. 2022-05-31T14:14:17Z 2022-05-31T14:14:17Z 2022 book ONIX_20220531_9781911507192_39 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/55769 eng OBServing Law application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781911507192.pdf https://checkout.sas.ac.uk/checkout?pub=sas&isbn1=9781911507185 University of London Press Institute of Advanced Legal Studies University of London Press 10.14296/202201.9781911507192 10.14296/202201.9781911507192 4af45bb1-d463-422d-9338-fa2167dddc34 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies University of London Press 360 London open access
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Achieving Access to Justice in a Business and Human Rights Context explores the interplay between access to justice and business and human rights- a growing area of international human rights law- in European civil-law countries. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) can contribute to economic prosperity and social development in the countries where they operate. At the same time, their activities may directly or indirectly cause harm to humans and to the environment. However, MNEs are rarely held accountable for their involvement in human rights abuses and environmental damage. In recent years, activists have challenged corporate impunity by introducing innovative claims seeking to hold parent companies directly liable for the harm caused by their group’s activities. They have also strategically used this type of litigation to trigger corporate accountability reforms at international, regional, and national levels. Using national litigation experiences as a starting point and focusing on European civil-law countries, the book evaluates the extent to which litigation against MNEs has been effective in achieving access to justice and corporate accountability. It also considers whether ongoing regulatory developments, such as the adoption of mandatory human rights due diligence norms and the negotiations for a business and human rights treaty, can contribute to the realisation of access to justice and corporate accountability in the future.
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