Remedy for corporate human rights abuses in transitional justice contexts

Corporations and other business enterprises often operate in countries affected by conflict or repressive regimes and commit human rights violations and crimes under international law, either as the main perpetrator or as accomplices by aiding and abetting government forces. In transitional justice contexts, the trials, truth commissions, and reparations typically included within the set of remedy mechanisms have focused primarily on abuses by state authorities’ or by non-state actors directly connected to the state, such as paramilitary groups or death squads. Innovative uses of transitional justice mechanisms across the world, however, have started to address, even if still only in a marginal way, corporate accountability for human rights abuses and crimes under international law and have attempted to provide redress for victims. This research analyses this development. This research provides an original contribution to the field on business and human rights and the little-researched link with transitional justice by assessing how remedies for corporate human rights abuses and crimes under international law can be achieved in transitional justice contexts. To answer this question this research first analyses how different mechanisms (judicial processes at the international and domestic level, truthseeking initiatives, and reparations programmes) have dealt, or failed to deal, with remedy for victims of corporate human rights abuses. It then examines their outcomes, the results those processes have achieved and the obstacles they have faced. The research takes a victim-oriented approach by analysing the tools, instruments and institutions available for victims (the bearers of rights) in transitional justice contexts (i.e. in countries emerging from conflict or authoritarian regimes) to remedy violations when those are committed by corporations

On the Recognition of Fuzzy Circular Interval Graphs

Fuzzy circular interval graphs are a generalization of proper circular arc graphs and have been recently introduced by Chudnovsky and Seymour as a fundamental subclass of claw-free graphs. In this paper, we provide a polynomial-time algorithm for recognizing such graphs, and more importantly for building a suitable representation.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure

Irene Pietropaoli – the use of human rights indicators to monitor private security companies operations

Private security companies (PSCs) often operate in areas of conflict or weak governance, in the absence of effective regulation and with a high risk of implication in serious human rights abuses. As a result, governments and industry representatives, sometimes with civil society’s participation, have developed several guidelines and codes of conduct that seek PSCs commitment to human rights standards and monitor their activities

Bipartite finite Toeplitz graphs

Let n, a1 , . . . , ak be distinct positive integers. A finite Toeplitz graph Tn (a1 , . . . , ak ) = (V , E ) is a graph where V = {v0 , . . . , vn-1 } and E = {(vi , vj ) : |i - j| ? {a1 , . . . , ak }}. In this paper, we characterize bipartite finite Toeplitz graphs with k = 4

Humano, aunque no demasiado : apuntes sobre un problema de teoría e historia del derecho internacional.

Proudhon invita a desconfiar de quien habla de “humanidad”. Marx denuncia la ambigüedad de los “derechos del hombre”. Schmitt pone al descubierto la hipocresía de una guerra contra un “enemigo de la humanidad”. A pesar de estos tres nombres, el resultado siempre es uno: Casandra