Human Rights

Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice: Truth and Justice for Past Business Complicity in Human Rights Violations

Edited by Leigh A. Payne · Gabriel Pereira · Laura Bernal-Bermúdez
Oxford University Press January 2022

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ISBN-13
9780197267264
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
January 2022
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - LEIGH A. PAYNE, LAURA BERNAL-BERMÚDEZ AND GABRIEL PEREIRA
1:Conceptual Framework for Understanding Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations - LEIGH A. PAYNE, LAURA BERNAL-BERMÚDEZ AND GABRIEL PEREIRA
PART I: The Historical Roots of Corporate Accountability
2:The Roots of Corporate Accountability: From the Holocaust and Beyond - LEIGH A. PAYNE, MARY BEALL AND AMI HUTCHINSON
3:Corporate Accountability in Argentina: Fighting Corporate Impunity in Provincial Transitional Justice Contexts - GABRIEL PEREIRA
4:Accountability for Volkswagen's Role in the Brazilian Dictatorship - FELIPE AMORIM, RODOLFO MACHADO AND VITOR SION
5:Innovation from the Bench: Judges, Prosecutors, and Analysts Advancing Truth and Accountability for Conflict-Related Corporate Complicity in Colombia - LAURA BERNAL-BERMÚDEZ AND NELSON CAMILO SÁNCHEZ
6:Corporate Complicity During the Peruvian Armed Conflict: Developing Archimedes´ Lever in the Case of Campesino Communities - MIGUEL BARBOZA-LÓPEZ
7:Transitional Justice and Economic Crimes: Innovative Approaches from South Africa - HENNIE VAN VUUREN AND MICHAEL MARCHANT
PART II: Ongoing Corporate Accountability Efforts
8:Business as Usual? The Legacy of Transitions to Democracy on Corporate Accountability - TRICIA D. OLSEN
9:Complicity of Companies in Chile's Current Human Rights Crisis - KARINNA FERNÁNDEZ AND SEBASTIAN SMART
10:!Berta vive, la lucha sigue!: Corporate Accountability for Attacks against Human Rights Defenders in Honduras - NANCY R. TAPIAS TORRADO
11:Transitional Justice, Corruption, and Mutually Reinforcing Accountability: What the Global South Can Learn from the Philippines - RUBEN CARRANZA
Conclusion: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Accountability of Corporate Complicity in Gross Human Rights Violations - RODRIGO UPRIMNY
Bibliography
Index
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