If you’ve investigated corporate wrongdoing but never considered filing a legal case, or sharing your evidence with someone who may be able to pursue judicial recourse, maybe this is the time to do so!
The resources listed below have been selected from a wide range of online guides, manuals and databases. They are meant to aid you specifically in discerning between information and evidence, identifying legal offences that may be best suited for the wrongdoing you’ve investigated and preparing strong criminal complaints against corporate actors. Rarely, though, can any of this be done without cooperating with others who can provide you with certain expertise you may be lacking. Hence, one of the categories of tools includes those developed by the CCHub NGO Partners, who have worked among them and with many others to jointly file criminal cases against corporate actors.
Collaboration is the cornerstone of all successful legal cases.
1. Corporate legal accountability tools
- Amnesty International and ICAR’s Corporate Crimes Principles
- FIDH’s Guide on “Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses“
- BHRRC’s Company Response Mechanism and Company Dashboards
- SOMO’s Guide on Multinationals in Conflict
- Global Compliance News
2. Criminal and human rights investigations
- Handbook on Assisting International Criminal Investigations
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Handbook on crime scene investigation
- Global Right’s Compliance: Basic Investigative Standards for First Responders to International Crimes
- Uganda Human Rights Commission: Human Rights Investigators’ Handbook
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime: Criminal Intelligence, Manual for Analysts
- Berkeley Protocol of Digital Open Source Investigations
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Manual on Developed Practices
- OHCHR’s Guide on attributing individual responsibility: Who’s Responsible
- PILPG’s Handbook on Civil Society Documentation of Serious Human Rights Violations
- International Nuremberg Principles Academy: Fair and Effective Investigation and Prosecution of International Crimes
- National Defence College: A Handbook on Assisting International Criminal Investigations
- Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Practitioner’s Handbook on Defence Investigations in International Criminal Tribunals
- Witness – Video as Evidence Field Guide
3. International criminal & humanitarian law
- ICRC Online International Humanitarian Law Dictionary
- ICRC: Current debates on IHL
- ICRC: Domestic law and IHL
- International Courts & Tribunals Collections
- UN Library Legal Databases
- ICC – Legal Tools Database
- Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
- Geneva Academy’s RULAC: Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts
- Open Society Justice Initiative’s Fact Sheet on International Crimes
- ICC – Office of the Prosecutor’s Policies and Strategies
4. Case databases
- International crimes database
- PILPG’s War Crimes Prosecution Watch
- Business & HRs Resource Centre – Lawsuits database
- TRIAL International – Universal Jurisdiction Database
- International Courts & Tribunals Collection – case database
- Redress’ Casework Database on Torture
- Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals
- Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals Case Law Database
- Triblex: Case law database of the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal
- ESCR-Net’s Caselaw Database
- UNODC’s SHERLOC (Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws on Crime)
- PACER database of US court documents
