ABSTRACT
This article assesses the efficiency of non-judicial grievance mechanisms in providing victims of corporate human rights violations with improved access to remedy. As no such mechanism is currently available, this article formulates a proposal for a new mechanism in the form of a corporate responsibility ombudsman, which would offer a great deal of flexibility as well as being an inexpensive, expeditious and informal manner of dealing with such issues.
The article argues in favour of utilizing states’ regulatory arsenal to improve victims’ access to remedy extraterritorially. Based on recent international developments, I elaborate approaches to human rights due diligence regulation and export credit financing by means of two corporate responsibility ombudsman proposals …
Juho Saloranta, Establishing a corporate responsibility ombudsman: Enhancing remedy through state-based non-judicial mechanisms? Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, https://doi.org/10.1177/1023263X20981367 First Published January 7, 2021.
First posted 2021-01-08 12:38:58
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