An important part of responsible business practices is compliance with the law. This article details what actually happens when the laws of the host country fail to ensure adequate protection. The focus here is on land dispossession and loss of … Continue reading » “Corporate responsibility and compliance with the law: land, dispossession and aftermath at Newmont’s Ahafo project in Ghana”
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From charity to institutional development: Reflections on Newmont’s CSR strategies and conflict-avoidance in Ghana
In 2003 Newmont has signed an investment agreement with the government of Ghana that resulted in the inauguration in 2006 of the large, gold-producing project at Ahafo. The challenge for Newmont has been to resolve the initial conflict resulting from … Continue reading » “From charity to institutional development: Reflections on Newmont’s CSR strategies and conflict-avoidance in Ghana”
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Defining Rape: Emerging Obligations for States under International Law?
The crime of rape has been prevalent in all contexts, whether committed during armed conflict or in peacetime, and has largely been characterised by a culture of impunity. International law, through its branches of international human rights law, international humanitarian … Continue reading » “Defining Rape: Emerging Obligations for States under International Law?”
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The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
The issue of corporate responsibilities has had a tumultuous history at the United Nations. When the Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed John Ruggie’s Guiding Principles in June 2011, it was the first time that the UN stated authoritatively its expectations … Continue reading » “The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights”
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Access to Asylum : International refugee law and the globalisation of migration control.
Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced to private actors. Under threat of … Continue reading » “Access to Asylum : International refugee law and the globalisation of migration control.”
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Outsourcing European Migration Control and the Reach of International Refugee Law
The Outsourcing of Asylum in the EU and the Advent of ‘ProtectionLite’
The new volume Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Making of European Space (Ashgate, 2011) provides an innovative contribution to the debate on contemporary European geopolitics by tracing some of the new political geographies and geographical imaginations emergent … Continue reading » “The Outsourcing of Asylum in the EU and the Advent of ‘ProtectionLite’”
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Järnridåns fall i Europa 1989 markerade början till slutet på det Kalla kriget och den bipolära världsordningen som genom sin politisk-militära struktur handlingsförlamat FN:s säkerhetsråds operativa förmåga. Enigheten inom FN ökade, vilket i sin tur skapade förväntningar om en kollektiv … Continue reading » “Collective action-problemet och komplexa fredsoperationer – kollektiv säkerhet med förhinder”
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