The study is an evaluation of our seven OECD complaints against European companies that trade in cotton from Uzbekistan. Cotton there is harvested under the massive use of state-organized forced labor of children and adults. All procedures have been completed. We took this as an opportunity to comprehensively evaluate the impact of the complaints on the situation in Uzbekistan and the effectiveness of the OECD complaint mechanism as such.

The annual report provides an overview of ECCHR’s work during 2012. The focus in this year was on the fight against impunity in Colombia and on the critical evaluation of the first ten years of the International Criminal Court and the German Code of Crimes against International Law. The report incorporates the photographic installation “El Hotel” by Argentinian artists Azul Blaseotto and Eduardo Molinari.

This practitioners’ guide from ECCHR is produced in cooperation with MISEREOR and “Brot für die Welt”. It discusses practical and legal elements of legal strategies to demand fair and adequate compensation from transnational corporations for human rights violations. “Making corporations respond” looks at both litigation and out-of-court approaches and how they can be strategically interconnected. French and Spanish versions are forthcoming.