The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) is a coalition of human rights, environmental, labor, and development organizations that creates, promotes and defends legal frameworks to ensure corporations respect human rights in their global operations.
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30 April 2013
The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable launches the “Government Procurement Project” Governments at the federal and state level are large purchasers of goods and services and can therefore exert a tremendous amount of leverage on corporate actors to comply with requirementsRead More…
25 April 2013
On April 23rd, ICAR and the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center hosted the UN Working Group (WG) on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises as part of its country mission to theRead More…
17 April 2013
On April 17th, 2013, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) that Esther Kiobel may not proceed in her case against Shell for aiding and abetting in the torture and murder of her husband. TheRead More…
01 April 2013
THE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY ROUNDTABLE HOSTS: CIVIL SOCIETY CONSULTATION FOR US COUNTRY VISIT OF UN WORKING GROUP ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS April 23rd, 2013 9:00 am – 12:30 am Georgetown University Law Center Lunch Provided for Registered Attendees TheRead More…
26 March 2013
The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, European Coalition for Corporate Justice, and the Corporate Responsibility Coalition are proud to announce the launch of the Access to Judicial Remedy Project. As corporations have gained increasing power and rights in the global marketplace, they haveRead More…
