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Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor

International Advisory Council, IHRB

Mark B. Taylor is an analyst and researcher focused on human rights, illicit financial flows, international crimes, and responsible business. For two decades, Mark’s research and investigation into war economies and regulatory options for corporate accountability has been the basis for case building as well as advice to governments, civil society, trade unions, and companies. 

Until the end of 2023, Mark was a senior analyst at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, where he led investigations and case building on commercial and other enablers of international crimes for The Docket. Before that, Mark held research and management positions at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, where his subjects ranged from strategic litigation, business and human rights, and sustainability in global value chains. Mark was a member of the expert group of the Corporate Crimes and Human Rights Project as well as a government-appointed committee in Norway on supply chain transparency, and sits on the advisory councils of several social movement organisations. His most recent publication is War Economies and International Law: Regulating the Economic Activities of Violent Conflict (Cambridge, 2021). Mark holds a B.A. from McGill University, Montreal, an LL.M from Leiden University in the Netherlands and a DPhil from the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.

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Commentary: Regulate First. Ask Questions Later.

There is a remarkable lack of concern on the part of policy makers about the dearth of evidence for the effectiveness of the international standards they push at business.

So it was with some anticipation that I read Roel Nieuwenkamp’s recent IHRB...

02 February 2018

By Mark Taylor, International Advisory Council, IHRB

Commentary: Killing Investigators Blinds Us All

For those who follow the news, the horrors that people suffer in war seem more visible now than ever before. Yet, there are moments when the hidden contours of war’s violence are driven home to us through the sacrifice of outsiders.

There are...

04 April 2017

By Mark Taylor, International Advisory Council, IHRB

Commentary: The Movement and the IGWiG

One year ago, a remarkable diplomatic consensus that had lasted the better part of a decade was seemingly shattered when the Human Rights Council passed two separate resolutions on business and human rights: one was focused on the continued work of...

03 July 2015

By Mark Taylor, International Advisory Council, IHRB

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Commentary: A Business and Human Rights Treaty? Why Activists Should be Worried

This commentary is the second in a series.

The call by a group of states at the UN Human Rights Council to begin diplomatic deliberations towards a UN treaty on business and human rights has drawn the backing of a growing list of civil society...

04 June 2014

By Mark Taylor, International Advisory Council, IHRB

For a glass not quite half-full to continue filling up, civil society will have to ramp up its efforts and ensure that governments put the right policies in place.

Commentary: A Glass Filling Up - Reflections on the first year anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Things did not look good. Last summer, in the immediate aftermath of the UN Human Rights Council’s strong endorsement of the Guiding Principles on business and human rights (GPs), there was a definite pause.

After six years of John Ruggie’s...

18 June 2012

By Mark Taylor, International Advisory Council, IHRB

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