New insights into business and human rights in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Current business and human rights issues are more complicated, visible and challenging. Globalisation, international free market, promotion of foreign investment and doing-businesses in contemporary societies, under certain circumstances, confronts with social values and human rights. This conflicted relationship is complex and its analysis is highly difficult. Latin America is the scenario of multiple business and human rights conflicts and understanding these may provide basic elements to contribute with innovated answers to solve them. This is the reason why the panel will discuss certain business and human rights issues in Peru (Kathryn Babineau), Colombia (Laura Bernal), Argentina (Leigh Paine and Gabriel Pereira) and Mexico (Alvaro Amaya and Jorge Toledo)

Sub Track

• Human Rights

Session Organizer

• Alvaro Amaya-Villarreal, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Chair

• Leigh A Payne, University of Oxford

Individual Presentations

• Business as Usual: Confirming and Lengthening an analysis of Business and Human Rights in Peru - Kathryn C Babineau, University of Oxford

• Corporate Complicity in Past Human Rights Violations - Jose Roberto Gabriel Pereira, University of Oxford

• Business and human rights agenda in Mexico: between public and private - Jorge Carlos Toledo Sauri, Universidad Marista de Mérida; Alvaro Amaya-Villarreal, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

• Colombia: factors explaining remedy and corporate accountability in cases of human rights violations - Laura Bernal Bermúdez, University of Oxford

Discussant

• Nicolás M Perrone, Universidad Externado de Colombia