Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 892847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bohoslavsky |
| SIGNATURE | BOHOSLAVSKY J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Río Negro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7059-281X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Human Rights Due Diligence by Corporate Creditors in Sovereign Debt Restructurings – A Great Missing Link
This article studies human rights due diligence by private corporate creditors in the context of sovereign debt restructurings. First, the legal bases of this specific due diligence are presented and systematized. Then, by providing empirical statistical evidence, the article analyses whether haircuts applied by creditors across countries regularly consider the social and economic human rights situation of the debtor countries in question, as par…
Financial Support to Apartheid
This case note presents the arguments made in the amicus curiae brief submitted by the UN independent expert on debt and human rights to the OECD National Contact Point in the case brought in 2018 by Open Secrets and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies concerning the alleged complicit conduct of two banks during apartheid in South Africa. It also outlines the developments in this legal case and comments on why apartheid victims’ claims against f…
Pinochet's Economic Accomplices
With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by Force uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing on the behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectives in terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. This book makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the Chilean dictatorship and explains their links with the r…
Development and Economy in Mongolia through a Human Rights Law Lens
This article studies the Mongolian economic and development policies implemented in recent years until March 2020, including its revenue matrix sustainability, from an international human rights law perspective. Policy and legal recommendations for discussion are also presented. Based on a United Nations mission the author conducted to Mongolia in 2019, this country study examines the macroeconomic policies, including debt issues, from a human ri…
Assessing economic policies impact on human rights in Tunisia – lessons from a United Nations mission
Based on a United Nations mission the author conducted to Tunisia in 2017, this article studies the links between economy and human – in particular economic and social- rights in this country. It addresses the following two questions: how do the economic and financial difficulties and related policies implemented affect human rights in Tunisia? To what extent are corruption, illicit financial flows and human rights interlinked in the country? The…
Complicidad de las instituciones financieras internacionales en la violación de derechos humanos en el contexto de reformas económicas
Este artículo demuestra que la introducción de medidas de ajuste no contribuye a la recuperación económica sino que, en cambio, trae aparejadas consecuencias negativas en términos de crecimiento económico, coeficientes de endeudamiento e igualdad, generando frecuentemente una serie de impactos negativos en materia de derechos humanos. Y por lo tanto, que existe una sólida base legal para sostener una inconsistencia prima facie entre la imposición…
Assessing the Gender-Sensitivity of International Financial Institutions’ Responses to Covid-19
Development and Human Rights in Bolivia
This article analyzes the economic and social policies implemented during the Evo Morales governments in Bolivia, which many scholars and social activists consider as a unique case of heterodox economic development. It seeks to contribute to the understanding of Bolivia’s development and economic process over the last decade from a human‐rights perspective, including challenges and contradictions. The questions covered include if there was social…
Human rights and economic policy reforms
This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overview of the 2019 Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments for Economic Reform Policies, developed under the mandate of UN Independent Expert on debt and human rights. Having introduced the d…
Guiding principles on human rights impacts assessments of economic policy reforms
In his report to the UN General Assembly on 28 February 2019, the United Nations Independent Expert on Debt and Human Rights presented Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments of Economic Reforms (UN Doc. A/HRC/40/57). These set out the human rights principles and standards that apply to States, international financial institutions and creditors when designing, formulating or proposing economic reforms. Based on the existing human ri…
Covid-19, instituciones financieras internacionales y continuidad de las políticas androcéntricas en América Latina
Este artículo analiza, desde una perspectiva de derechos humanos y de la economía feminista, las políticas financieras de emergencia desplegadas por las instituciones financieras internacionales (IFIs) -sobre todo el FMI y el Banco Mundial- para ayudar a los Estados de América Latina a enfrentar la crisis del Covid-19. Se estudian los presupuestos macroeconómicos y fiscales, así como las políticas económicas subyacentes a los créditos que las IFI…
Economía y finanzas en Panamá
Este artículo analiza la economía y finanzas de Panamá desde una perspectiva de derechos humanos. Primero presenta las implicaciones adversas de las corrientes financieras ilícitas en materia derechos humanos. Luego describe el marco legal e institucional panameño, en particular las obligaciones y compromisos internacionales del país, así como el sector bancario y financiero del país. También se presentan los llamados “papeles de Panamá”, tanto l…
Tracking Down the Missing Financial Link in Transitional Justice
This article argues that lenders providing financial assistance to authoritarian regimes should be held responsible for complicity if they knew or should have known that they would facilitate human rights abuses. Discussing the lenders’ role in a transitional justice context leads to a broadening of legal and institutional tools to channel this responsibility. This article starts by critically assessing the micro criteria traditionally used to un…
Corporate Complicity and Finance as a 'Killing Agent
The legal basis for corporate accountability for violations of human rights has evolved robustly over the past decades. Yet, accountability for financial complicity has significantly lagged behind. This article attempts to address this gap in order to help close it. It describes the legal and judicial trends in the evolution of corporate responsibility for complicity, identifying points at which financial complicity could have been addressed as a…
Covid-19, instituciones financieras internacionales y continuidad de las políticas androcéntricas en América Latina
Este artículo analiza, desde una perspectiva de derechos humanos y de la economía feminista, las políticas financieras de emergencia desplegadas por las instituciones financieras internacionales (IFIs) -sobre todo el FMI y el Banco Mundial- para ayudar a los Estados de América Latina a enfrentar la crisis del Covid-19. Se estudian los presupuestos macroeconómicos y fiscales, así como las políticas económicas subyacentes a los créditos que las IFI…
Development and Human Rights in Bolivia
This article analyzes the economic and social policies implemented during the Evo Morales governments in Bolivia, which many scholars and social activists consider as a unique case of heterodox economic development. It seeks to contribute to the understanding of Bolivia’s development and economic process over the last decade from a human‐rights perspective, including challenges and contradictions. The questions covered include if there was social…
Human rights and economic policy reforms
This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overview of the 2019 Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments for Economic Reform Policies, developed under the mandate of UN Independent Expert on debt and human rights. Having introduced the d…
Corporate Complicity and Finance as a 'Killing Agent
The legal basis for corporate accountability for violations of human rights has evolved robustly over the past decades. Yet, accountability for financial complicity has significantly lagged behind. This article attempts to address this gap in order to help close it. It describes the legal and judicial trends in the evolution of corporate responsibility for complicity, identifying points at which financial complicity could have been addressed as a…
Corporate Complicity and Finance as a 'Killing Agent
The legal basis for corporate accountability for violations of human rights has evolved robustly over the past decades. Yet, accountability for financial complicity has significantly lagged behind. This article attempts to address this gap in order to help close it. It describes the legal and judicial trends in the evolution of corporate responsibility for complicity, identifying points at which financial complicity could have been addressed as a…
Tracking Down the Missing Financial Link in Transitional Justice
This article argues that lenders providing financial assistance to authoritarian regimes should be held responsible for complicity if they knew or should have known that they would facilitate human rights abuses. Discussing the lenders’ role in a transitional justice context leads to a broadening of legal and institutional tools to channel this responsibility. This article starts by critically assessing the micro criteria traditionally used to un…
Economía y finanzas en Panamá
Este artículo analiza la economía y finanzas de Panamá desde una perspectiva de derechos humanos. Primero presenta las implicaciones adversas de las corrientes financieras ilícitas en materia derechos humanos. Luego describe el marco legal e institucional panameño, en particular las obligaciones y compromisos internacionales del país, así como el sector bancario y financiero del país. También se presentan los llamados “papeles de Panamá”, tanto l…
Assessing the Gender-Sensitivity of International Financial Institutions’ Responses to Covid-19
Development and Human Rights in Bolivia
This article analyzes the economic and social policies implemented during the Evo Morales governments in Bolivia, which many scholars and social activists consider as a unique case of heterodox economic development. It seeks to contribute to the understanding of Bolivia’s development and economic process over the last decade from a human‐rights perspective, including challenges and contradictions. The questions covered include if there was social…
Human rights and economic policy reforms
This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overview of the 2019 Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments for Economic Reform Policies, developed under the mandate of UN Independent Expert on debt and human rights. Having introduced the d…
Guiding principles on human rights impacts assessments of economic policy reforms
In his report to the UN General Assembly on 28 February 2019, the United Nations Independent Expert on Debt and Human Rights presented Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments of Economic Reforms (UN Doc. A/HRC/40/57). These set out the human rights principles and standards that apply to States, international financial institutions and creditors when designing, formulating or proposing economic reforms. Based on the existing human ri…
Covid-19, instituciones financieras internacionales y continuidad de las políticas androcéntricas en América Latina
Este artículo analiza, desde una perspectiva de derechos humanos y de la economía feminista, las políticas financieras de emergencia desplegadas por las instituciones financieras internacionales (IFIs) -sobre todo el FMI y el Banco Mundial- para ayudar a los Estados de América Latina a enfrentar la crisis del Covid-19. Se estudian los presupuestos macroeconómicos y fiscales, así como las políticas económicas subyacentes a los créditos que las IFI…
Pinochet's Economic Accomplices
With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by Force uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing on the behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectives in terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. This book makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the Chilean dictatorship and explains their links with the r…
Development and Economy in Mongolia through a Human Rights Law Lens
This article studies the Mongolian economic and development policies implemented in recent years until March 2020, including its revenue matrix sustainability, from an international human rights law perspective. Policy and legal recommendations for discussion are also presented. Based on a United Nations mission the author conducted to Mongolia in 2019, this country study examines the macroeconomic policies, including debt issues, from a human ri…
Assessing economic policies impact on human rights in Tunisia – lessons from a United Nations mission
Based on a United Nations mission the author conducted to Tunisia in 2017, this article studies the links between economy and human – in particular economic and social- rights in this country. It addresses the following two questions: how do the economic and financial difficulties and related policies implemented affect human rights in Tunisia? To what extent are corruption, illicit financial flows and human rights interlinked in the country? The…
Complicidad de las instituciones financieras internacionales en la violación de derechos humanos en el contexto de reformas económicas
Este artículo demuestra que la introducción de medidas de ajuste no contribuye a la recuperación económica sino que, en cambio, trae aparejadas consecuencias negativas en términos de crecimiento económico, coeficientes de endeudamiento e igualdad, generando frecuentemente una serie de impactos negativos en materia de derechos humanos. Y por lo tanto, que existe una sólida base legal para sostener una inconsistencia prima facie entre la imposición…
Financial Support to Apartheid
This case note presents the arguments made in the amicus curiae brief submitted by the UN independent expert on debt and human rights to the OECD National Contact Point in the case brought in 2018 by Open Secrets and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies concerning the alleged complicit conduct of two banks during apartheid in South Africa. It also outlines the developments in this legal case and comments on why apartheid victims’ claims against f…
Human Rights Due Diligence by Corporate Creditors in Sovereign Debt Restructurings – A Great Missing Link
This article studies human rights due diligence by private corporate creditors in the context of sovereign debt restructurings. First, the legal bases of this specific due diligence are presented and systematized. Then, by providing empirical statistical evidence, the article analyses whether haircuts applied by creditors across countries regularly consider the social and economic human rights situation of the debtor countries in question, as par…
Political science (12 works) · Economics (8 works) · Human rights (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Human Rights and Development (6 works) · Finance (4 works) · International human rights law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)