International Corporate Accountability Roundtable

For other uses, see ICAR (disambiguation).

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) is a coalition of human rights groups focused on corporate accountability in the United States. Its mission is "to harness the power of the human rights community to identify and promote robust frameworks for corporate accountability, strengthen current measures and defend existing laws, policies and legal precedents."[1] ICAR's Steering Committee includes EarthRights International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, Global Witness and Amnesty International.[2]

Formed in 2010, ICAR has campaigned for regulations that would restrict the sale of conflict minerals,[3] in defense of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,[4] and in support of a Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act[5] which would, in effect, extend the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act to include non-military contractors.

ICAR advocated[6] for California SB 861, which passed in September, 2011 and made California the first US state to pass legislation restricting conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[7]

References

  1. ^ "ICAR". ICAR. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  2. ^ "International Corporate Accountability Roundtable » Members". Archived from the original on 2011-12-05. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  3. ^ "International Corporate Accountability Roundtable » Conflict Minerals". Archived from the original on 2012-02-03. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  4. ^ "International Corporate Accountability Roundtable » Defending the FCPA". accountabilityroundtable.org. Archived from the original on 2012-02-03.
  5. ^ "International Corporate Accountability Roundtable » Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act". Archived from the original on 2012-02-03. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  6. ^ "California takes decisive step against Congo's conflict minerals". Christian Science Monitor. 2011-04-13. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  7. ^ "California becomes first state to pass conflict mineral legislation". Christian Science Monitor. 2011-09-14. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2019-05-29.