Legal liability to the fore!

The International Criminal Defence Attorneys have arrived at the CSR party. Does this mean that criminal liability is far behind? Of course corporations already face liability for environmental damage, labour abuse, and breaches of corporate laws. The areas where liability is murkiest is in the area of human rights abuses or breaches of CSR undertakings (ie the Equator Principles , the Forest Stewardship Council standards (FSC Canada).

"Some of the major human rights and social issues in the "CSR" universe may soon move from the domain of voluntary corporate action to that of legally required conduct - with enforcement imposed via criminal or major civil penalties. This is the focus of the first special research and monitoring project supported by the Defence Watch. " - International Criminal Defence Attorneys.

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