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Article

8 Mar 2013

Author:
International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, European Coalition for Corporate Justice, Corporate Responsibility Coalition

[PDF] Access to Judicial Remedy: Ensuring Redress for Victims of Corporate Related Human Rights Abuses

As corporations have gained increasing power and rights in the global marketplace, they have also been immunized from responsibilities and accountability. Nowhere is this more damaging than in the judicial system where threats to mechanisms that afford legal remedy to victims of corporate related human rights abuses have increased alarmingly. Regressive developments in the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union countries will make it even more difficult for some of the most vulnerable populations in the world to access justice…This Project will affirm that, as part of the State duty to protect human rights, States must ensure that victims have access to judicial remedy in their jurisdictions. The report will further identify feasible opportunities to ensure that such remedy is accessible in the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union.