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Corporate accountability for international crimes and the right to remedy.

Live from the UN forum on Business & Human Rights. This panel discussion focuses on frictions between the human rights responsibilities of companies under the UNGPs, the right to remedy for victims of gross human rights abuses, and the practice of holding corporations to account for international crimes through criminal justice. In recent years, efforts to ensure criminal accountability of corporate actors for international atrocity crimes have increased. Criminal prosecution of corporate actors who have caused or contributed to gross human rights abuses and/or international atrocity crimes is considered an important facet of the access to remedy for victims. However, the practice of criminal prosecution of corporate actors is marred with obstacles to the realization of this right to remedy. We will reflect on these tensions by diving into the landmark war crimes trial against former executives of Swedish oil company Lundin, as well as other cases. Introduction and moderation Anita Ramasastry, Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law, and former Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights Speakers Rev. James Ninrew Kuong Deng, Plaintiff in the Lundin war crimes trial and Chair of Leech Victims Voices, representing South Sudanese communities affected by war crimes Tara Van Ho, Senior Lecturer at Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre Olof Björnsson, Senior Researcher at Swedwatch, author of Fuel for Conflict about the role of institutional investors in the Lundin case Egbert Wesselink, PAX, lead author of Unpaid Debt, The Legacy of Lundin, Petronas and OMV in Block 5A, Sudan 1997 - 2003