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SUMMARY:Corporate Complicity in Human Rights violations in Africa - Vuyelw
 a Kuuya (Lauterpacht Centre for international Law\, Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Sharath Srinivasan
DESCRIPTION:Corporations investing in resource-rich\, conflict-ridden and 
 weakly governed African states face the risk of becoming involved in human
  rights violations perpetrated by their business partners. The aim of this
  presentation is to analyze the legal consequences of corporate complicity
  in human rights violations from the point of view of international human 
 rights law and domestic civil law (with a focus on legislation from the Un
 ited States). In doing so\, it seeks to answer two questions that are ofte
 n confused in the business/human rights debate: firstly\, whether corporat
 ions should be held liable for complicity in human rights violations\; and
  secondly\, whether they can be held liable for such conduct. The presenta
 tion also analyses the role that Corporate Social Responsibility programs 
 and other initiatives are playing in regulating the relationship between h
 uman rights and corporations. \n\nMiss Vuyelwa Kuuya is a Research Fellow 
 of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. She is also a Research As
 sociate of the First Africa Group (now part of the Standard Chartered Bank
  Group). She works on the Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations 
 project which is based at the LCIL. Vuyelwa is also a Research Associate o
 f the Centre for Sustainable Development Law\, McGill University and has p
 rior experience working in the corporate and commercial practices of law f
 irms in London\, South Africa and Zimbabwe. \n\n
LOCATION:The Mond Building Seminar Room\, Centre of African Studies
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