Memorandum of Evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights

31 May 2009

Memorandum of evidence to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights

Rights & Accountability in Development (RAID) welcomes this opportunity for presenting written evidence to the Committee. This memorandum contains four sections: the first addresses gaps in the Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework; the second looks at weaknesses in the regulation of London’s secondary market, the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), and the implications for human rights; the third section comments on the government’s proposals for the self-regulation of private military companies; the fourth section considers the effectiveness of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Recommendations are listed at the end of the Memorandum. Case studies based on some of RAID’s investigations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are included in an annex.