How can financial databases and other online sources be used to hold companies along the investment chain accountable for their involvement in committing human rights abuses? Join the Business and Human Rights Clinic when it presents its 2015-16 work pioneering research and advocacy techniques in the field of business and human rights.
Introduction -Prof Elazar Barkan, Professor of International Affairs, SIPA -Prof Joanne Bauer, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs and the Business and Human Rights Clinic, SIPA Clinic Presentation -Ishita Petkar, Michael Adams, Satbir Chowdry 2015-16 Clinic members
Discussants -Prof James Guidera, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, SIPA, and Managing Director/Group Head for North America, Energy & Infrastructure Group , Credit Agricole -Matthieu Rousson, Director, Energy & Infrastructure Latin America, Credit Agricole -Annabel Short, Program Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
In its inaugural year, the Business and Human Rights Clinic has worked in partnership with Inclusive Development International (IDI) to test and refine their approach to Investment Chain Mapping (ICM). ICM is a research process that seeks to provide affected communities and advocates with valuable information about the financial interests associated with problematic investment projects, and the potential access to grievance mechanisms these relationships may bring. The results of this process have revealed promising avenues for advocacy, with the identification in nearly all cases of key financial interests, including development finance institutions, linked to harms, which provide strong pressure points for advocacy. The Clinic has applied the ICM methodology outlined in IDIs co-publication, Following the Money: An Advocates Guide to Securing Accountability in Agricultural Investments, to over fifteen cases where the rights to land, natural resources and housing have been affected. During this session, Clinic members will share research methods and the casework it has undertaken on development projects across the energy, agriculture, and extractive industries, and demonstrate how this model can empower communities harmed by these investments to pursue effective remedy.
About the Business and Human Rights Clinic
The Business and Human Rights Clinic is a full-year program offered by the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, drawing graduate students from programs across the university to provide an interdisciplinary laboratory for testing and modeling innovative methodologies for research and advocacy at the intersection of business and human rights. The Clinic is supervised by Joanne Bauer, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs. Clinic members in 201516 are: Allison Walker, Anatole Douaud, Andrew Wilcock, Chatrini Weeratunge, Ginger Whitesell, Haoran Luan, Ishita Petkar, Max Anderson, Michael Adams, Samantha Weinberg, Satbir Chowdry, Sethaly Beyer, Xin Yi Cheow.
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