Archive for the tag 'Human Rights'

Mohamed ElBaradei Addresses Opening Session of IBA Conference in Dubai

Posted by F. Peter Phillips on November 4, 2011 under Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, International

 The Annual Conference of the International Bar Association opened on Sunday night October 30, 2011, with an address by Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and, with the IAEA, 2005 Nobel laureate.  He focused on the dynamic state of the Middle East and addressed both the rule of law as an incentivizing influence on the creation of the society in which we want to live, and the role of the lawyer as social engineer. Read more »

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ADR as a Human Rights Violation (??)

Posted by F. Peter Phillips on June 14, 2010 under Conflict Resolution, Europe, Human Rights

I had a good chuckle at an article that appears in the current issue of Dispute Resolution International, the journal of the Dispute Resolution Section of the International Bar Association.  Daniele Cutolo and Mark Alexander Shalaby discuss a case brought in Italy to test whether an Italian statute requiring mediation prior to certain consumer court proceedings violates Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, ensuring access to the courts.  The lower court found that it did.

Ya gotta smile.

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ADR and Human Rights: The Saga Continues

Posted by F. Peter Phillips on July 5, 2009 under Human Rights, International, systems design

Readers of this blog will remember my interest in the work of Prof. John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations.  His work continues, richer and even more provocative. Read more »

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ADR and Human Rights: A Match?

Posted by F. Peter Phillips on May 26, 2009 under Conflict Resolution, Human Rights

This article appears in the April 2009 edition of the Mediation Newsletter of the International Bar Association.

An entire day of the 2008 IBA Conference in Buenos Aires was devoted to the topic of the interrelationship among Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights.  Organized by James E. Brumm, A. Jan Eijsbouts and John F. Sherman, III, one focus of the discussion was the Report of John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, titled “Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights” (the “Ruggie Report”).

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