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Recent publications |
Corporate
Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: A Guide for Victims and NGOs on
Recourse Mechanisms
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is pleased
to announce the publication of a guide for victims and NGOs on recourse
mechanisms in cases of corporate-related human rights violations. The
guide was launched today in Amsterdam on the occasion of a public debate
on corporate justice held in collaboration with the Business and Human
Rights Resource Centre and OECD Watch and with the participation of
experts such as Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right
to food, author of the guide’s foreword and former FIDH Secretary
General and Katherine Gallagher, Attorney of the Centre for
Constitutional Rights and FIDH Vice-President.
To find out more, or to download a copy of the Guide,
click here.
Steve Tombs and
David Whyte, Regulatory Surrender: death, injury
and the non-enforcement of law (2010)
A new book published by the Institute of Employment Rights documents
how, during their time in office, New Labour's desire to reduce the
'burdens' on businesses has emasculated the regulatory system that
existed to prevent death and injury at work. Moreover, the key
regulator, the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), was no unwitting victim
in this process - as the authors document, it anticipated and embraced
many of the changes towards a lighter touch regulatory system.
Drawing upon a mass of data generated through Freedom of Information
requests, Regulatory Surrender reveals how, in the last decade,
the HSE has colluded in a policy process that now leaves it incapable of
adequately enforcing safety law. Over the past decade there has been:
* a 69% fall in the numbers of inspections made of business
premises;
* a 63% decline in investigations of safety incidents at work
* a 48% reduction in prosecutions
This collapse in inspection, investigation and enforcement has
dramatically reduced the chances of businesses being detected and
prosecuted for committing safety crimes.
The Institute of Employment Rights has made the book available to
individuals at the trade union/student rate of £8.00. For an order form
click here. Alternatively, you can contact
office@ier.org.uk
James Gobert, "The
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 – Thirteen years
in the making but was it worth the wait?" (2008) 71 Modern Law Review
413. To download the article,
click here. |
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