Accountability for Corporate Human Rights Violations in Dictatorships and Civil Conflicts: The Argentine Model in Comparative Perspective
English
6 November 2014, 6pm – Argentine Ambassador’s Residence 49 Belgrave Square London, SW1X 8QZ.
Keynote Speaker: Horacio Verbitsky, President of CELS, co-editor of
Cuentas Pendientes: An Argentine Model of Corporate Accountability
Panel Discussion with Argentine Practitioners
Ana Oberlin, National Human Rights Secretariat
Judith Konig, Bureau of Economic Research and Financial Analysis of the National Prosecutor Office
Fernando Luis Rodolfo Poviña , Juez Federal Nº2 de Tucumán
7 November 2014, 2-6pm (coffee provided between panels)
St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Domestic Strategies for Corporate Accountability
Gastón Chillier, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS); Argentina
Cesár Rodríguez, Dejusticia–Derecho-Justicia-Sociedad; Colombia
Lina Magalón, Legal Advisor of the Unitarian Confederation of Colombia and the Confederation of Colombian Workers
Francisco Durand, Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo (DESCO); Peru
Fernando Mendiola, University of Navarra; Spain
International Strategies for Corporate Accountability
Katherine Gallagher, Center for Constitutional Rights; USA
Marjorie Jobson, Khulumani Support Group; South Africa
Francisco Quintana, Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL); USA
Carlos Lopez, International Commission of Jurists; Switzerland
8 November 2014, 9:30-11:30am (coffee provided before panel)
St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Panel on Future Directions in Corporate Accountability
Leigh Payne, Gabriel Pereira, & Tricia Olsen, University of Oxford-University of Denver, CHRD; UK-USA
Phil Bloomer & Mauricio Lazala, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre; UK
Sheldon Leader & Sabine Michalowski, University of Essex Business and Human Rights Project; UK
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt & Human Rights; Argentina & Switzerland
Organisers: Latin American Centre (University of Oxford) and Argentine Embassy (London)
For more information, contact gabriel.pereira@sociology.ox.ac.uk