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Feb 10, 2026
This article analyses the Ninth Circuit’s July 31 2025 decision in Epic v Google and the Ninth Circuit’s willingness to bless forward-looking remedies in the regulation of Big Tech.
Doing business between China and India
The Indigenous Peoples’ Committee addresses development issues affecting land and people from the legal perspective of those impacted, rather than developers, governments, or businesses. The committee aims to enhance communication among lawyers worldwide on issues concerning indigenous peoples, and establish links with organisations like the UN Sub-Committee on Indigenous Peoples and the World Bank. The Committee plans to publish a regular newsletter and is seeking an editor, along with volunteers, particularly from outside Canada. To reduce travel costs, the committee will utilise e-communication to advance its projects, programs, and publications.
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Compliance, governance and innovation: balancing risks and opportunities of doing business in Latin America
Dec 11, 2020
In early October, tech giant Google announced it had set aside over $1bn to pay media outlets to display curated content on its news apps, initially as part of a three-year programme. Google will pay publishers it chooses on a market-by-market basis to provide blurbs for the company’s Google News Showcase app (‘Showcase’) and to give readers free access to certain paywalled articles.
The OECD and the UN have been addressing international tax issues differently to avoid or minimise double taxation.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
The Poverty and Social Development Committee, builds on years of work under various IBA auspices. We engage the legal profession to contribute to UN Sustainability Goal #1: Eradicating Poverty. Our committee advocates for using law to protect individuals and communities from poverty, promoting well-being. We believe legal professionals have a duty to create and apply law for good, preventing exploitation and mitigating harm. Planned projects include a podcast, a practical book for lawyers, a session at the IBA Annual Conference, and supporting NGOs focused on poverty eradication. We invite members to join our efforts.
Oct 19, 2015
Kofi Annan, Muhammad Yunus, Mary Robinson and Mark Malloch Brown discuss the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals.
Fifteen years after the launch of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), corporate abuses persist across all sectors and borders.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
The Business Human Rights (BHR) Committee creates awareness of business and human rights and broader corporate sustainability principles. Preventing and addressing business-related human rights risks is key to ethical business, good governance and increasingly legal compliance for businesses including law firms.
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as the core international standard, provide guidance on governments’ duty to protect against human rights harm by business; business’ responsibility to respect human rights; and access to remedy for business-related human rights harm.
The BHR Committee promotes legal skills to advise clients in this area and facilitates dialogue among lawyers to support evolution.
Navi Pillay, Bernard Kouchner and Mark Malloch Brown examine UN intervention in Syria and the responsibility to protect.
May 21, 2024
A letter from UN-appointed independent human rights experts to oil giant Saudi Aramco and its financiers has attracted intense interest. Global Insight assesses what the increasing legal pressure on companies means in the context of the climate crisis and human rights.
This session will be a discussion on application of newly released IBA Updated Guidance on UNGPs launched in 2023.
It will look at understanding the application of this guidance in practice, what it means for all lawyers, how ESG relates to business and human rights, the significance of the Right to a Healthy Environment (R2HE), due diligence approaches for human rights and the environment, and the trends in transnational business and human rights litigation.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Dec 01, 2025
A landmark UN resolution on Gaza, while welcome, hasn’t changed facts on the ground. Bombing has resumed, disarmament is frozen and reconstruction is stalled, pushing peace and justice further out of reach.
SustainabilityFocusRuleOfLawAt the 2021 IBA Global Showcase, Sanda Ojiambo, the CEO and Executive Director of the UN Global Compact sent a clear message to the international legal community: “We cannot deliver on the UN Sustainable Development Goals without peace, justice and strong institutions”. Although the legal profession has a role to play in the effective implementation of most, if not all, of the 17 UN SDGs, and their translation into ESG activity, UN SDG 16 covering "Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions” lies at the heart of the IBA’s mission.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
After the high of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the next few years of climate negotiations would always be lower profile – yet just as important. Now that the agreement has been finalised, the hard work to create the rules and guidance it calls for will take time. Two years on, and with only a year remaining until the self-imposed deadline for implementation is upon governments, the November 2017 Conference of the Parties (COP) needed to advance the process.
The IBA Section on Public and Professional Interest will present a showcase session on the growing importance, and convergence, of the UN SDGs and the private sector concepts embodied in ESG, and the implications of both for the global legal profession.
Mar 16, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has horrified the world and spurred regional bodies, notably the EU and NATO, into taking concrete action to help Ukrainian refugees and provide military assistance to the country.
Overview of the global landscape of insurance claims, offering analysis on emerging patterns, challenges and best practices in effective claims management across the globe.
IBA Insurance Conference 2024: AI in insurance and other global insights
Oct 05, 2016
Interview with Juan Mendez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
In 2020, the independent advisory body to the Media Freedom Coalition, the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, published an advisory report ‘A Pressing Concern: Protecting and Promoting Press Freedom by Strengthening Consular Support to Journalists at Risk’ examining the existing State approaches respecting consular assistance for journalists at risk abroad, and proposes a new paradigm of justice and accountability.
Every day, journalists and media personnel around the world fall victim to arbitrary detention, violence or intimidation on account of their work. These attacks resonate beyond their individual cases, being not only attacks on free expression, but also exponential assaults that silence the subjects of the reporting and deprive the public of their stories. By threatening and targeting journalists, States seek to send a dissuasive message, suppressing those who would report on their wrongdoings. According to Reporters Without Borders, as of 2022, over 500 journalists are arbitrarily detained worldwide. This is the highest number of journalists detained in connection with their work that they have ever recorded.
This event, organised by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute who act as Secretariat to the High Level Panel, will feature members of the High Level Panel and guest speakers in conversation on the role of international law in finding concerted approaches to address this mounting issue.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Dec 01, 2025
In October, eyeWitness to Atrocities (eyeWitness) – founded by the International Bar Association (IBA) – and the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON) submitted a Joint Urgent Appeal (Urgent Appeal) to the United Nations documenting the grave violation of rights in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, including…
Cartel-busting, long the mainstay of antitrust enforcement, faces existential challenges in many jurisdictions. Leniency pipelines are no longer producing a steady flow of cases, but are slowing to a trickle, as booming private litigation and the rise of class actions in a number of countries make whistleblowing ever less attractive to cartellists. Electronic communications result in what is at times an overwhelming volume of material to be sifted by all those involved. And artificial intelligence is spawning a wealth of new ways in which markets can be fixed, many of which are hard to detect, and some of which may be beyond the reach of existing laws. As legislators and agencies are reconsidering their amnesty/immunity regimes, the focus in enforcing cartel laws is moving beyond traditional sell-side cartel behaviour into labor and other “purchasing” markets. What is happening to international cartels and globally coordinated enforcement action in the meantime? This session will explore how enforcers, private practice and business around the globe are responding to these and other trends in cartel enforcement.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
IBA Global Insight - February/March 2016. The universal and legally binding deal struck at the recent Paris talks is a crucial breakthrough in the fight against climate change. Work must move ahead quickly to ensure the agreement delivers on its environmental promise.
Compliance, governance and innovation: balancing risks and opportunities of doing business in Latin America
Jul 16, 2025
Far from being consigned to the archives of the 20th century, it should be recognised that the UN Charter is more relevant today than at any time in its previous eight decades.
The plight of children and unaccompanied minors in refugee movements remains one of the greatest concerns of the contemporary period. This panel will review the refugee landscape in 2024, with a focus on the treatment of children and unaccompanied minors.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is alarmed by the brutal and lethal use of force by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against protestors, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, killing of civilians, rape of women and overall deterioration of human rights and the rule of law in the Republic of Sudan.
The Cape of Storms: A comparative navigation of current hot topics in maritime & transportation law
IBA Global Insight June/July 2016 - An article by IBA Fellow Kelly D Askin. The UN Secretary-General can waive immunity for serious crimes, but few peacekeepers are prosecuted and still fewer convicted as intervention often occurs in countries with failed judicial systems.
As the pandemic forced people to work from home, several real estate developers decided to reconvert their projects (eg apart hotel, hotels, etc). A group of developers and experts will discuss regulatory and commercial challenges to convert the use of real estate projects.
13th Annual IBA Real Estate Investments Conference
Angela Kane is one of the United Nations’ most respected and experienced officials, having recently retired from the organisation after 38 years of service. She has since accepted a position as a Senior Fellow at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation and is the co-convener of the Group of Eminent Persons of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. She speaks to the IBA about her time at the UN, the Security Council, and the challenges she faced.
Environmental, social, governance (ESG) principles have been present in many aspects for project development long before these principles found their way into the general corporate/banking world more recently. With governmental and international bodies enacting new, different policies across the globe, addressing
ESG aspects properly has become a key element for a successful project and its financing. The session discusses the current trends and future outlook of ESG and its impact on structuring projects and their financing and the new requirements applicable to stakeholders involved in such projects.
38th IBA International Financial Law Conference
Mar 25, 2026
With the Ukraine war still ongoing after four years and unpredictable turmoil being unleashed in the Middle East, a strong and effective United Nations is needed more than ever.
The shipping industry becomes more and more digital and we have unmanned vessels sailing already, but digitalisation is also a course of threat due to cybercrime. We will explore the area in this session.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Dec 16, 2022
In October, as Venezuela’s migrant population ballooned and its humanitarian crisis continued to escalate, the country was unceremoniously ousted from the UN’s Human Rights Council after serving only a single term.
Antitrust/competition law considerations for information sharing between life sciences companies
Oct 14, 2019
Over the past few years, Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has challenged governments around the world on their lack of political will to address poverty. In this filmed interview, he speaks to the IBA US Correspondent, Michael Goldhaber, about the injustice of wealth inequality in the US.
Insurance and reinsurance in uncertain times: an assessment on cyber and a discussion on claims, regulatory and transactions
Dec 31, 2017
In the report, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) raises concerns about the low number of practicing lawyers in the country, which has a detriment effect for access to justice for all, and highlights the issue of the lack of independence of the legal profession in Azerbaijan.
Biennial Conference of the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL): A transformative era of action for the law and lawyers - implementing the energy transition and global sustainability
Sep 30, 2017
In the report, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) resolutely condemns laws against ‘gay propaganda’ and links to spike in anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes.
Join us for a lively, interactive debate about recent and hot topics and trends in the real estate markets. Topics will include:
• Social media and real estate
• Smart use of AI by real estate lawyers: efficiency, quality of results, confidentiality
• Real estate and money laundering
• Major issue causing concern in the real estate industry in 2024
• Trends in leisure industry
• Offices: worldwide trends
• Restrictions on foreign real estate ownership: how liberal is your county?
• Private ownership in real estate: direct or indirect holding?
14th Annual IBA Real Estate Investments Conference
Members of the United Nations team investigating the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are speaking of a highly sophisticated cover-up operation by agents of the Saudi government undertaken with the approval of the Kingdom's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Marilu Capparelli is one of the managing directors of the EMEA Google Legal Department, she leads an international team of lawyers located in different countries and is also leading a copyright litigation strategy area in EU. Marilu is an Italian qualified lawyer with experience in major international law firms, at the Court of Justice of the European Union and as an in-house counsel. Before joining Google, she was Head of Legal and Government Affairs at eBay Inc, Skype and Paypal.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2024
Myanmar is once again high on the agenda at the United Nations, as the country’s leadership faces heavy criticism over alleged human rights violations committed against Rohingya Muslims. On 16 March, the European Union called for an inquiry into the abuses and, a day later, China and Russia blocked a Security Council statement of concern about the situation.
Also, it will address how sports events´ owners and producers are dealing with “active” fans who want to choose what, when and how to watch and how much the new players - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Tik Tok, Kwai and other digital media – are willing to pay for sports content and how will their payback be.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
IBA Annual Conference Boston 2013 film: an interview with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, discussing the scope of the trafficking problem and what can be done about it.
How do AWS, Google, and Microsoft deal with issues like choice of law and forum, liability, service levels, termination, and more?
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Jun 16, 2026
For over a decade, the IBA has actively promoted the implementation of the UNGPs within legal practice by supporting practitioners, law firms and bar associations to integrate the UNGPs into their work.
Second, many jurisdictions have moved to force digital platforms like Google and Facebook to compensate news organisations for the use of their content.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Oct 31, 2024
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), condemns the passing of legislation in the Israeli parliament to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from operating in Israel, revoking its privileges and immunities…
Drawing on her leadership at Google Cloud Magda Dziewguć will highlight why Poland has emerged as a premier European hub for technological competence and digital transformation.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2026
May 21, 2024
In May, a UN expert group meeting in Geneva examined the progress made on UN Sustainable Development Goal 1, which calls for ending extreme poverty by 2030.
Lene Wendland is Chief of the Business and Human Rights Section in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). She contributed to the development and drafting of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), the authoritative global standard on business and human rights. Wendland oversees OHCHR’s work on implementation of the UNGPs at national level and in global policy developments. She directs the UN Human Rights’ Accountability and Remedy Project, which aims to enhance accountability and access to remedy in cases of business involvement in human rights abuses. She also directs the UN Human Rights B-Tech Project, applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to key human rights challenges related to digital technologies.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2024
Dec 16, 2022
On 14 November, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on Russia to pay war reparations in the latest addition to intensifying efforts being made by multilateral institutions to hold the Putin regime to account for its ongoing aggression in Ukraine.
One year and half after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the brazen breach of the UN Charter continues to pose a great threat to the rules-based international order, raising important questions on how the global rule of law can be defended and restored.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Dec 16, 2022
On 14 November, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on Russia to pay war reparations in the latest addition to intensifying efforts being made by multilateral institutions to hold the Putin regime to account for its ongoing aggression in Ukraine.
Aug 24, 2022
The UN World Food Programme’s General Counsel, Bartolomeo Migone, tells In-House Perspective how his team has risen to the challenges posed by the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis and Covid-19.
Aug 05, 2020
A United Nations report has found that the killing of a top Iranian general by a United States drone in January violated international law. The report calls for greater legal oversight of the increasingly unrestrained use of armed drones. However, the US has responded by saying the report justifies acts of terrorism and that it is aiming to sell more drones around the world.
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