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Neymar accused of diving by Uruguay captain Diego Lugano
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- Venue & date: Estadio Mineirao, Belo Horizonte; Wednesday 26 June
Coverage: Live on BBC Three and BBC Sport website from 19:30 BST
Uruguay captain Diego Lugano has accused Brazil's Neymar of diving, ahead of the Confederations Cup semi-final between the sides.
Lugano warned Chilean referee Enrique Osses to be wary of the 21-year-old.
"Neymar can feign a foul, so we must be watchful nobody is fooled," claimed the Paris St-Germain defender.
"He is very apt at pretending to be fouled and is very lightweight, so he can drop to the ground and fool the referees and the rivals."
Neymar, who completed a £48.6m move from Santos to Barcelona before the tournament, is the undoubted star of the Brazilian side.
The forward has scored and been named man of the match in all three of Brazil's group fixtures.
Lugano also claimed that Brazil had abandoned the "jogo bonito" - beautiful game - in favour of a more physical approach.
"Brazil is a team that has abandoned 'jogo bonito' - they are hitting hard and tough physically," he said.
"I have played in Brazil and Brazilian football is physically very tough, perhaps the toughest football in South America - more than we understand."
Lugano will return for the match at the Estadio Mineirao, Belo Horizonte after being suspended for Uruguay's final group game against Tahiti.
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Comment number 369.Azerty
27th June 2013 - 21:06
;-) Not a lot else to say really. Except...
madgraz is a feral half-wit !
Comment number 368.notafanoftheref
27th June 2013 - 18:55
I saw him doing this all game yesterday in the Confed semi vs Uruguay. I was reading a tweet by the blog RedCardTheRef about this and think he is going to get himself a reputation and end up going into the book next season...
Comment number 367.SirDigbyChickenCaesar
27th June 2013 - 18:25
he should stop acting like a screaming feather
Comment number 366.chelstilidie
27th June 2013 - 16:22
Ok maybe I misplaced messi in the diving stakes, but he will be in excellent company at barca,on the feigning injury front until there's some action taken after games and managers slate players,like saf did and we did with drogba it wil only get worse,a slightest touch now and it's a foul...joke it's become..
Comment number 365.Phenomeniser
27th June 2013 - 14:57
@359 DalstonDave
Are you saying that football players should introduce the consumption of one anothers bodily fluids before and after games..?
This barbaric rugby behaviour has no place in our beautiful game!!
Comment number 364.wbilfc
27th June 2013 - 14:53
#354...so if a player genuinely gets injured whilst being fouled, he has to go off for 3 - 5 minutes? hardly seems fair. Problem is, that it's incredibly difficult to assess whether an injury is real or not. your idea would not work i'm afraid.
Comment number 363.torn
27th June 2013 - 14:29
Pity he wasn't honest enough to pay his tax eh?
Comment number 362.Ed
27th June 2013 - 14:26
350 - chelstilidie
Messi is the most honest player out there so if you think he is a diver you are obviously displaying your knowledge (or lack of) of football. It is why he is loved so much. Yes his ability gets the plaudits but his honesty is a joy to behold.
Comment number 361.Barrysboots
27th June 2013 - 14:24
I wouldn't call this an allegation, I would say it is a stone cold fact.
Should fit in well at Barca alongside the master diver, Dani Alves, who goes down if he is breathed on.
Comment number 360.Ed
27th June 2013 - 14:10
Ronaldo is the biggest diver on the planet so your fascination with all things Barca is mis-placed.
Having said that Ronaldo could have competition in the diving competition from Neymar. From the bit I have seen of him he certainly likes a piroette.
Comment number 359.DalstonDave
27th June 2013 - 14:06
i can't believe that football can't learn something from rugby. I know it comes up every time with this kind of debate but rugby seems to have it sorted and i'd have thought it a harder game to officiate !
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27th June 2013 - 14:01
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Comment number 357.ktjs007
27th June 2013 - 13:23
He will fit very well in Barcelona they also have great divers.
Except for Messi.
Comment number 356.Haaskellll
27th June 2013 - 13:19
Easy answer here... Yes he is! However it's not fair to single him out when the majority of professional footballers are also diving.
This final will be a test of which team can cheat the most. With possibly a couple of nice goals.
Comment number 355.Hmm
27th June 2013 - 13:12
Rivaldo would be proud of this.
Comment number 354.tonyspooner654
27th June 2013 - 13:06
@350 If you go down and needing the trainer to come on then it should be 3-5 minutes of treatment off the pitch. If it is bad enough for the game to stop then get treatment, we have all seen a player jump up as soon as they get a foul. If you fake injury your team suffers! Bet it quickly stops, nothing else has worked so far! The card system is abused by players faking injury as well.
Comment number 353.Eddies Gonna Get Ya
27th June 2013 - 13:04
@350 Are you seriously suggesting Messi and Iniesta dive? Wow, you need to watch some actual football mate, rather than spend a year booing your own manager!
Comment number 352.BrunoDante
27th June 2013 - 13:03
@349 The problem you have then is that if a player is badly fouls and then needs to receive treatment you are unfairly penalising that player. It's about time retro-active action was taken with suspensions being given to players who have dived. You could have a committee of ex-players akin to the 'Dubious Goals' one.
Comment number 351.McB
27th June 2013 - 13:02
Comment number 350.chelstilidie
27th June 2013 - 12:46
@349 WHAT!!!! So if my player mata gets clattered by cattermole/barton or whoever we go down to 10 men for 5 mins!!! and guilty player prob doesn't even get booked!!
Barca/la liga your welcome to Neymar he's everything thats wrong with the ex beautiful game,and perfect for barca,fit in well with busquetes/messi/pedro/iniesta/alves,we have a few in epl but la liga's teams are full of them,
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I've been looking into the new Harnessing Technology Grant after finding this thread. Although elcs were very annoying because they could only be used for software, and then not on all software, we have found them useful for paying two big bills which they were allowed to fund: Espresso subsciption and payment to the company who designed and host our school website. I did wonder if the new grant would mean that we would have to find other money for these, but it looks like we will be OK depending on the amount of grant allocated to us. Espresso is really coming into it's own now that we have the IWBs, and the website currently helps us keep parents informed about the school and what is happening here. The website may change once we start looking at the Kaleidos VLP we have been given by the LEA, and we will presumably need to use the grant to pay for this after a couple of years, but at least I think we are safe to carry on for now.
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Anyone out there had any guidance from their LEA on what they can use this for specifically, or, more helpfully possibly, what isn't included?
I note the table that says "the grant is paid quarterly ... according to the following timetable" and then lists 5 dates...
One thing we are investigating at the moment is that the Harnessing Technology grant is not for subscription based models ... so alternative funding needs to be arranged for certain things we pay for.
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Some context: during a round-trip car journey to my husbands' parents' house in Drenthe this past weekend I began to notice that an awful lot of people had elected to spend at least part of their weekend standing around on motorway overpasses watching the traffic below.
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OMG, the Germans do this too! I find it very strange but when the weather gets nice you can see them hanging out over the Autobahn watching cars.ReplyDelete
I never get a picture since I'm always driving and fooling with my camera while going over 120 isn't safe...
Well then I'm really glad I snapped this one, Wiffy. We can't have you going off the road in an attempt to capture the bizarre behaviour of the Germans. Who knew this was a Northern European trend? I wonder if the Belgians do it . . .ReplyDelete
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Annabel Short, Programme Director (based in New York)
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Annabel, a UK national, joined the Resource Centre in 2003. She oversees the Centre's programs and communications work (including on social media), manages its Asia and its Middle East researchers, and co-ordinates joint initiatives with Resource Centre partners. She established the Centre's New York City office in 2007 where, among other events, she organizes the Centre's annual Mary Robinson Speaker Series on Business and Human Rights. Annabel formerly worked in freelance journalism, and authored "Go Make a Difference!" a book of environmental tips, for the Ecologist. Her articles have appeared in Ethical Corporation, Geographical, the Guardian, Open Democracy, Resurgence and more.
From 2002-3 she was an environmental and social responsibility consultant with Context Group based in London where she specialized in corporate reporting and stakeholder engagement. She has lived in Lima, Peru where she was a campaigner with Amnesty International, and in Chile, where she taught English. Annabel has a Certificate in Intl. Human Rights Law & Practice from London School of Economics; MSc in Development Studies from London University (for which her dissertation examined the human rights dimensions of Occidental's oil pipeline in Arauca, Colombia); Postgraduate Diploma in Periodical Journalism from City University; and an MA joint Honours in Spanish and French from Edinburgh University. Her mother tongue is English and she speaks fluent Spanish and strong French.
Aliou Diouf, Francophone Africa Researcher & Representative (based in Dakar)
diouf [at] business-humanrights.org
Aliou Diouf, a Senegalese national, joined the Resource Centre in 2009. He is responsible for research and outreach in Francophone Africa, including missions in the field and representing the organization in the region at meetings, conferences and other relevant events. He is a lawyer and a human rights advocate. He previously worked as a legal advisor within Geneva for Human Rights; as a research project manager for the Domestic Violence Office in Geneva and as a social worker at a residential refugee centre in Geneva. Aliou also worked as legal intern for the Intl. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)and interned at the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
Aliou was educated at Graduate Institute of Intl. & Development Studies in Geneva where he obtained a PhD in Intl. Criminal & Humanitarian Law, and at Gdansk University where he earned a Master's (LLM) in Intl. Law & Human Rights Law. He also earned degrees in International Law from the University of Helsinki, the Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI) and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva. Aliou's mother tongue is Sérère, he is fluent in Wolof & French; with strong Polish & English.
Joseph Kibugu, Eastern Africa Researcher & Representative (based in Nairobi)
kibugu [at] business-humanrights.org @joekibugu
Joseph Kibugu, a Kenyan national, joined the Resource Centre in January 2012. Joe worked at International Justice Mission in Kenya for over nine years, leading the organization's work in Kenya addressing issues including gender-based violence, illegal detention, unprosecuted rape and murder, land seizure, and police accountability. Joe worked in Freetown as an intern at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Joe obtained his law degree from Univ. of Nairobi and has a Masters in International Human Rights Law from Univ. of Notre Dame, USA. One of Joe's courses at Notre Dame was "Transnational Corporations and Human Rights" under Prof. Douglass Cassel. Joe has conducted business and human rights missions in Kenya, Uganda and Malawi, and is currently planning a Tanzania mission. He has represented the Resource Centre at key regional and international business and human rights events. Joe is fluent in English and Swahili and is proficient in French.
Nokukhanya (Khanya) Mncwabe, Anglophone Southern & Western Africa Researcher & Representative (based in Cape Town)
mncwabe [at] business-humanrights.org
Khanya, a South African national, joined the Resource Centre in 2012 as Anglophone Southern & Western Africa Researcher & Representative. A human rights advocate with particular experience in the field of transitional justice, Khanya previously worked as senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, providing technical support to the African Union in its development of a Transitional Justice Policy Framework for Africa. Prior experience includes working as Regional Coordinator (Southern Africa), African Transitional Justice Research Network, project assistant at the Novalis Ubuntu Institute and facilitator at Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre. Khanya holds a BSocSci (Politics & Philosophy ) from the University of Cape Town and is currently working towards her LLB from from Univ. of South Africa. She has taken short courses on economic, social & cultural rights issues from Centre for Human Rights, Univ. of Pretoria, and Legal Resources Centre. Khanya is fluent in English, Zulu and Afrikaans, with some Setswana.
Qian Cheng, Research Associate for Greater China (based in Wuhan)
cheng [at] business-humanrights.org
Qian Cheng, a Chinese national, joined the Resource Centre in 2014. He is a Greater China researcher. He formerly worked as a Program Director with Wuhan University Public Interest and Development Law Institute in China. He edited, translated, or contributed chapters to various books on business and human rights, legal empowerment, and/or rule of law. He lived in New York, U.S., where he was an international fellow with PILnet: the Global Network for Public Interest Law, and a visiting scholar with Columbia Law School Center for Chinese Legal Studies. Qian has a Certificate in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies; LL.M and LL.B from Wuhan University. His mother tongue is Chinese and he speaks fluent English.
Lowell Chow, East Asia Researcher & Representative (based in Hong Kong)
chow [at] business-humanrights.org
Lowell, a Hong Kong (Chinese) national, joined the Resource Centre in 2011. He is responsible for research and outreach in the Greater China region (including mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan). Lowell formerly worked for UL-STR Responsible Sourcing; interned at Médecins Sans Frontières, and was a student delegate for Oxfam Youth Campaign Partners. He was educated at University of Nottingham (MA Corporate Social Responsibility) and University of Hong Kong (BSc Honours). His mother tongue is Cantonese, and is fluent in English and Mandarin.
Harpreet Kaur, South Asia Researcher & Representative (based in Delhi)
kaur [at] business-humanrights.org
Harpreet, an Indian national, joined the Resource Centre in 2010. A human rights and development professional, Harpreet is responsible for research and outreach in South Asia, including regional missions in the region. She has over a decade of experience in research and implementing projects in India addressing human rights, public health including HIV/AIDS, disaster management, women's empowerment, and disability rights. She has previously held senior management positions at BBC Media Action and Panos South Asia. Previously, Harpreet has worked with organizations including Ford Foundation, Giz, SAI, Partners in Change, FHI 360, Actionaid India and Voluntary Action Network India.
Harpreet has a PhD and her dissertation focus on Terrorism & Human Rights: a cross cultural study in Jammu & Kashmir. She has an MSc in Anthropology from University of Delhi, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law from National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Harpreet is also an SA 8000 certified auditor. Harpreet's mother tongue is Punjabi, and she can speak Hindi and English fluently.
Bobbie Sta. Maria, Southeast Asia Researcher & Representative (based in Yangon)
stamaria [at] business-humanrights.org
Bobbie, a Filipino national, joined the Resouce Centre in 2013. She is responsible for the Resource Centre's coverage of Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Bobbie previously served as Southeast Asia Legal Coordinator of EarthRights International. In that role, she worked with advocates from the region to seek redress for corporate human rights and environmental abuses, and to engage regional mechanisms in an effort to promote the rule of law. Prior to working with EarthRights, Bobbie worked at Alternative Legal Assistance Center (SALIGAN) in the Philippines. Her work involved litigating land rights, environmental rights and domestic violence cases, advocating agrarian reform and gender policy laws, and training paralegals in rural areas in the Philippines. Bobbie has a degree in Business Administration & Accountancy and a Bachelor of Laws from University of the Philippines; and an MA in Human Rights and Democratisation from University of Sydney. She speaks Filipino and English, and is currently learning Myanmar.
Saul Takahashi, Regional Researcher & Representative for Japan, Korea, and the Pacific Islands (based in Tokyo) - Bio in Japanese
takahashi [at] business-humanrights.org
Saul Takahashi, Japanese national, joined the Resource Centre in June 2014 as the organisation's first Regional Researcher and Representative for Japan, Korea, and the Pacific Islands. Saul is forging partnerships with local civil society organizations, companies, investors, journalists and government representatives, including those already active on business and human rights issues in the region, as well as other key drivers of change. He is highlighting under-reported cases and concerns, seeking company responses to alleged abuses, and conducting research missions.
Saul was most recently Deputy Head of Office at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in occupied Palestine, where he was responsible for directing the human rights monitoring operation in the West Bank and Gaza, and for capacity-building efforts for local civil society organizations and government agencies. Previously Saul has held positions with Amnesty International, in both Tokyo and the International Secretariat in London, with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and the International Organisation for Migration. Saul holds an LLM in international human rights law from the University of Essex and has several academic and popular publications, in both English and Japanese.
Europe & Central Asia
Eniko Horvath, Western Europe Researcher & Representative (based in New York)
horvath [at] business-humanrights.org @enikohorvath
Eniko, a Hungarian national, joined the Resource Centre in 2011 as an intern and returned in 2012 as a Researcher. She is the Centre's Western Europe & North America Regional Researcher & Representative. Eniko's programmatic work focuses on the UN Guiding Principles, the UN Working Group, and business impacts on children's rights. She has experience working on human rights in Argentina (Asociación Civil por la Responsabilidad Social AMARTYA), Hungary (International Centre for Democratic Transition), Spain (Club De Madrid) and the UK (Cluster Munition Coalition and Consortium for Street Children). Eniko holds a BA from Harvard University and an MPhil from University of Cambridge. For her master's dissertation, she undertook fieldwork in Argentina on exploitation of Bolivian migrant workers in the clothing industry. Eniko is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Hungarian, with some Italian and Russian.
Danielle McMullan, Researcher (including Researcher on UK, Ireland and Israel & Occupied Palestinian Territories) (based in London)
mcmullan [at] business-humanrights.org
Danielle, a UK national, joined the Resource Centre in 2011 as a Researcher having previously been an intern. She is the main researcher for freedom of association and responsible for research and outreach in Israel & Palestine and UK & Ireland. Danielle is a human rights lawyer and her experience includes representing asylum seekers as a caseworker at Refugee & Migrant Justice. She has experience working with businesses on ethical and supply chain issues from her time at Business in the Community. She started her career at the law firm Mayer Brown where she was a solicitor in the litigation department. Danielle has an LLM (distinction) in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (distinction) from the College of Law College of Law and a LLB (Hons) from the University of Reading.
Ella Skybenko, Eastern Europe/Central Asia Researcher & Representative (based in Kyiv)
skybenko [at] business-humanrights.org
Ella, a Ukrainian national, joined the Resource Centre in 2008. She is responsible for research and outreach in Eastern Europe & Central Asia, including regional missions. Ella formerly worked as HIV/AIDS program manager at Holt International Children's Services and program coordinator at American International Health Alliance. Ella has a Postgraduate Certificate in Global Health from University of Manchester; degree in International Relations with specialization in International Law from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; and MA in International Human Rights from University of Denver. Her mother tongues are Ukrainian and Russian. She speaks fluent English.
Latin America
Julia Mello Neiva, Brazil, Portugal & Portuguese-speaking Africa Researcher & Representative (based in São Paulo)
neiva [at] business-humanrights.org
Julia is a Brazilian human rights laywer who has joined the Resource Centre in 2013. She is responsible for research and outreach in Brazil, Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa, including regional missions. Julia taught human rights course in Angola, as consultant for Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa; assisted São Tomé & Principe Government with transparency laws, co-authored a research project coordinated by Intl. Commission of Jurists in partnership with Conectas Humans Rights: "Access to Justice: Human Rights Abuses Involving Corporations - Brazil". She is one of the founding members of Conectas Human Rights, where she was Justice Program Coordinator. She has also worked with African American Policy Forum; Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic; and Center for Reproductive Rights. She co-taught the first academic course in Brazil on business & human rights, at Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas, and is a member of the Human Rights and Business Group of the school. She was educated at Columbia Univ. School of Law (LLM, human rights focus); Univ. of São Paulo Law School (graduate specialisation in human rights); Pontifical Catholic Univ. of São Paulo (Bachelor of Law). Julia's mother tongue is Portuguese. She is also fluent in English and Spanish, and has a good understanding of French.
Amanda Romero Medina, Latin America & Caribbean Researcher & Representative (based in Bogotá)
romero [at] business-humanrights.org
Amanda Romero, a Colombian national, has been working as Latin America & Caribbean Researcher & Representative for Business & Human Rights Resource Centre since April 2011. In this role she often meets with local NGOs and grassroots, and with companies. She has also undertaken business & human rights missions to Guatemala, Peru, Mexico and Argentina. She is based in Bogotá, Colombia, and has been a human rights researcher and educator since the late 1970ś. She has worked with Latin American and international NGOs, and was the American Friends Service Committee's Quaker International Affairs Representative for the Andean Region and Panama from 2000 to 2006; she also served for 6 years as a member of the civil society organizations' committee that advised the United Nations Development Programme Administrator in New York. Amanda holds a PhD degree in Education and a Masters' Degree in Educational and Social Development from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Colombia; and has completed a number of specialised human rights courses, and on armed conflict and humanitarian law. Amanda's mother tongue is Spanish is fluent in English.
Middle East
Farah Ismail, Middle East Researcher & Representative (based in Amman)
ismail [at] business-humanrights.org
Farah Ismail, a Jordanian national based in Amman, joined the Resource Centre in November 2014 as Middle East and North Africa Researcher & Representative. She is a human rights advocate with particular experience in the field of migrant and refugee rights under international law. Farah previously worked as a research assistant at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo. She was an active volunteer for six years in the refugee camps of Jordan working with refugee children. She has done two internships, one with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Amman, focusing on human trafficking in Jordan, and one in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Refugee Law Training Unit in Cairo. Farah has an MA in Migration and Refugee Studies from the American University in Cairo. Her mother tongue is Arabic and she speaks fluent English.
Rania Fazah, Middle East Researcher & Representative - through to Nov 2014
fazah [at] business-humanrights.org @raniafazah
Rania Fazah, a human rights activist, a Lebanese national based in Beirut. joined the Resource Centre in 2012 - responsible for research and outreach in Middle East & the Gulf region, including regional missions. Rania also work as a consultant for a number of international NGOs in human rights and advocacy. Currently she coordinates 7erak, an online social change platform for the Arab region. She has formerly managed Middle East programs for IKV Pax Christi and Save the Children, and as the Regional Coordinator of the Child Rights Program with Arab Resource Collective. Prior to that, Rania worked in the banking sector and acted as an information officer at the University of Balamand. Rania has a BA in political Sciences and another BA in journalism both from the Lebanese University. Rania has worked in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria & Yemen. Her mother tongue is Arabic and she speaks fluent English.
Corporate Accountability & Communications
Joe Bardwell, Corporate Accountability & Communications Officer (based in London)
bardwell [at] business-humanrights.org @JosephBardwell
Joe, a UK national, joined the Resource Centre in 2014. He collaborates with our researchers around the world to pursue adequate accountability and remedy for victims of human rights abuse, and works to increase media and social media coverage of the Resource Centre's work. Joe previously worked at ESCR-Net's Corporate Accountability Working Group, where he was involved in communications for the campaign for a binding treaty on business and human rights. Prior to this, Joe investigated human rights violations as a Legal Trainee and Legal Researcher at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights; researched the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises for the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin; and worked as an adviser on disability and mental health issues, and the UK Equality Act. Joe holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights and a BA in Criminology from the University of Central Lancashire.
Corporate Legal Accountability Project
Sif Thorgeirsson, Manager, Corporate Legal Accountability Project (based in Washington DC)
thorgeirsson [at] business-humanrights.org
Sif, a national of Iceland and USA, joined the Resource Centre in 2006. She oversees the Centre's Corporate Legal Accountability Project. Sif is a US-trained lawyer and prior to joining the Resource Centre she was a Researcher at Yale Law School on international human rights issues (including business & human rights). She was an associate at Troutman Sanders law firm in Washington, DC, where her practice focused on project development and finance in the energy sector, international law and corporate law. Sif received her law degree from George Washington University Law School. While studying law, Sif worked as a research assistant to international law Professor Ralph Steinhardt, working on subjects including human rights and corporate responsibility. Sif attended the Oxford University Summer Programme in International Human Rights Law. She received her BA in History and Political Science from McGill University in Canada. Sif is fluent in English & Icelandic, with good Spanish & French.
Elodie Aba, Legal Researcher (based in London)
aba [at] business-humanrights.org
Elodie, a French national, joined the Resource Centre in January 2013. She conducts research for the Corporate Legal Accountability project as well as on other business and human rights issues. Elodie is a human rights lawyer and legal translator. She was a research assistant at the One World Trust and previously worked at Handicap International UK. She also interned at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; and International Service for Human Rights. Elodie has a Master of Laws (LL.M) from the University of Melbourne; a law degree in International and European Law from University of Paris XI; a degree of legal translator from Institut Supérieur d'Interprétation et de Traduction (ISIT). Her mother tongue is French and she speaks fluent English and some Spanish.
Development, finance and program support
Lee Rodwell, Development Director – UK/Europe (based in London)
rodwell [at] business-humanrights.org
Lee, a UK national, joined the Resource Centre as the organization's first Development Director for the UK and Europe in 2013. Lee works with Patricia Surak in the US office on stewardship of all donations to the Resource Centre and identification of new sources of funding in the UK & Europe. Lee is a former Director of Development at the Art Fund and at Liberty (the UK's National Council for Civil Liberties), former Head of Grants, Trust and Foundations at the Serpentine Gallery, and previously Trust Fundraising Manager at UK-based charities Sightsavers and Whizz-Kidz. He has provided advice on fundraising, membership and governance to a diverse range of charities, arts organisations and membership bodies, and is a Trustee of new music charity NMC. Lee has a BA in Philosophy & Politics and an MA in Political Theory from the University of Essex; his mother tongue is English with some French and Spanish.
Patricia Surak, Development Director - North America (based in New York)
surak [at] business-humanrights.org
Patty, a US national, joined the Resource Centre in 2009 as the organization's first Development Director. She has helped to diversify the Centre's funding sources, increase the number of donors worldwide, and build the US board. Patty works closely with the Development Director - UK/Europe to manage current funding relationships and to seek financial support to enable the Resource Centre to expand its work. Prior to managing her own fundraising consulting business for several years, Patty was the Director of Development at a local senior care facility in New Rochelle, NY, where she oversaw a capital campaign which raised over $6 million to build a nursing and rehabilitation center.
From 2001-2005, Patty was the Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), where she and her team managed relationships with over 600 foundation and corporate supporters and grew the revenue from this sector six-fold. Patty was previously the director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for Catholic Relief Services in their world headquarters in Baltimore, MD. While at CRS she traveled to projects in Guatemala, Turkey, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Bosnia, in most locations providing technical assistance and fundraising training to CRS field staff to help with capacity building of local independent NGOs. Patty's academic and research projects included work on the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the U.S., Canada, & Mexico and on the effects of welfare reform on poor and low-income Pennsylvania residents. Patty earned her Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was awarded the Ruth Smalley Award for Outstanding Achievements in International Social Welfare, and her B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Lakshmi Samarakoon, Finance Officer (based in London)
samarakoon [at] business-humanrights.org
Lakshmi, a UK national, joined the Resource Centre in January 2011. She manages the day-to-day finances of the organization, centralises the finance function and provides input for funding reports, applications, budgets and audit. She previously worker as a financial accountant and finance systems implementation manager, where she worked mostly for private companies in a variety of industry sectors such as IT (Abraxus Computers), transport (TFL), engineering (High-Point Rendel), health (Harmoni Group Ltd). She was also a trustee of a small arts charity based in the UK: A.S.I.A. (Academy of South Indian Arts). Lakshmi was educated at Imperial College, London University (B(Eng) Hons Civil Engineering) and is an ACCA Affiliate (ACCA – Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
Sam Whannel, Office Administrator & Programme Support (based in London)
whannel [at] business-humanrights.org
Sam Whannel, a UK national, was appointed in February 2014 as the Resource Centre's Office Administrator and Programme Support. Sam has worked in a variety of administration and support roles in the public, private and third sector and held volunteer and internship positions at several campaign groups and non-profits including Campaign Against Arms Trade, Spanner Films and Asfar an online journal on Middle East politics and culture. Sam has an academic background in International Relations and US Politics. He completed his thesis on the impact of the campaign finance law on political advertising in US election campaigns as part of his MRes in Politics at Birkbeck College (University of London) and has previously studied at the University of Sussex where he completed his BA in International Relations.
Founder & Former Director
Chris Avery
Chris, a UK/US national, founded Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in 2002 and was Director until he retired in September 2013. He is a former Legal Adviser and Deputy Head of Research Department, Amnesty International - International Secretariat. He authored Business and Human Rights in a Time of Change, a 108-page report published by Amnesty International UK in 2000. Chris was educated at Columbia Univ. School of Law (LLM); Univ. of California, Davis, School of Law (JD Order of the Coif); Stanford Univ. (BA Honours).
Current Research Interns
Dec 2014 – Jun 2015: Hugo Chow (based in London)
Hugo, a Hong Kong (Chinese) national, joined the Resource Centre in December 2014 as a General Research Intern. He is currently studying MSc Human Rights at London School of Economics and Political Science. He previously studied Government and Public administrations at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and on a half-year exchange programme at Leibniz Universität Hannover for German language. He interned in the Intellectual Property team of Hogan Lovells (Hong Kong) LLP for six months and worked part-time for the Dui Hua Foundation for three months as a Project Translator in 2014 before commencing his studies in London. He volunteered in Ivory Coast for a month during summer 2013 with a Catholic Organization and was an active member of the Justice and Peace Commission of Hong Kong Catholic Diocese. He speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and English fluently, attains an intermediate level of German and is currently learning French.
Dec 2014 – May 2015: Rachel Tang (based in London)
Rachel, a Hong Kong (Chinese) national, joined the Research Centre as a research intern with a focus on the Greater China region and Japan in December 2014. She is an undergraduate Law student in her final year of study at SOAS, University of London. She has recently acted as a legal observer on behalf of Liberty for the Trade Union Congress "Britain Needs a Pay Rise" march in October 2014. She also previously volunteered at Liberty, where she supported the Operations and Development teams and assisted with various public events, including the "Day of Action" in June 2014 by the Don't Spy On Us coalition. Prior to this she interned at Des Voeux Chambers, Hong Kong. Rachel is fluent in English, Cantonese and Japanese and has a good command of Mandarin and Spanish.
Dec 2014 – Jun 2015: Sonia Hierzig (based in London)
Sonia, a Luxembourgish national, joined the Resource Centre as a General Research Intern in December 2014. She studied Politics and International Studies at the University of Exeter and Development Management at the Open University. She previously volunteered as a Social Policy Coordinator at the Citizens Advice Bureau Cornwall, where she took part in various local and national campaigns. She also completed an internship at the Embassy of Luxembourg in Abu Dhabi, during which she wrote reports about the human rights situation in the UAE. Sonia is fluent in Luxembourgish, German, French and English and speaks some Spanish. She is currently studying Human Rights at the London School of Economics.
Nov 2014 – May 2015: Claire Jeffery (based in London)
Claire, a British national, joined the Resource Centre as a Legal Research Intern in November 2014. Claire qualified as a solicitor in March 2014, having trained with Slaughter and May, in London, and BA-HR DA, in Oslo. She has recently been a Legal Intern with Legal Action Worldwide (LAW), carrying out research into the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and working on a project to address the impunity of war criminals visiting the UK, through the application of universal jurisdiction. Previously, Claire interned for the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC) in Ramallah, and the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) in Jerusalem. Claire currently sits on the executive committee for Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) in the UK and is a member of Lawyers in Business and Human Rights. She has a BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Oxford University and is now studying for an LLM in International Law at SOAS University, London. Her current studies focus on the effects of multinational enterprises on human rights and labour law.
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015: Isis Quijada (based in New York)
Isis, a Mexican and US National, joined the Resource Centre as a Research Intern in October 2014. Isis is currently completing an undergraduate diploma in Humanitarian Studies and Political Science at Fordham University. She has previously interned at the New York State Supreme Court; and volunteered and tutored at an Early Childhood Development Center in Pretoria, South Africa. Isis is currently a member of the United Nations Association, and prospective Student Representative of IMCES (Institute for Multicultural Counseling & Education Services) to the United Nations. Isis is fluent in English and Spanish with some French.
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015: Indiana Watkins (based in New York)
Indiana, an Australian national, joined the Resource Centre as a Legal Research Intern in October 2014. She studied Law and Arts at the University of Western Australia, including studying abroad during 2008 in Milan at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. After graduating, Indiana worked as an associate to two judges in the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and then as a lawyer in a top-tier commercial Australian law firm. Indiana has previously volunteered with the Australian Red Cross, examining the importance of international humanitarian law for businesses operating in conflict zones. She is currently completing her LLM at New York University, specialising in International Legal Studies.
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Rosie O'Donnell is trading the city life for suburbia, and she sure knows how to do it right. Just take a look at her new digs!
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I came from the agitated ocean. Its waves brought me here last night. There was a storm. I remember that much. I was washed upon the shore with a few of my belongings. By mere mercy, I lived. The ocean was violent and cruel when it pulled me overboard. I found a floating piece of broken furniture. Set myself upright and prayed to high-hell I would come out alive. Around 2am I lost my strength. Within a few short minutes I had lost my consciousness. The overboard woman was changed forever.This is my story. My name is Sasha Gray.
Fuck, I'm In Paradise - Part One
I should be dead, I thought to myself.
The breeze sang to me as I tried to orient myself. I felt at peace, not like someone whom had been shipwrecked but, rather like someone whom had been saved by devastation. A wave of despondency washed over me with a force that took my breath away. The place was beautiful. With its bird mating songs high in the trees and its bright hot sunlight bringing everything to life, I was as close to heaven as I've even known. And I knew hell. I knew the power of a man's angry fist. I knew the feeling of betrayal. And, for more reasons than any woman should ever know, I knew the longing in my heart for something real was as natural as the crystal-clear water falls in front of me.
I ended up here. Here was a place of fantasy. Fantasy was a place where I could find what I had lost behind years of a failed existence as someone else.
This place had its beauty. At times I was vexed between missing my old life and longing for the spoils of that new one.
Somehow, I had lost my clothes. They were some where in the rough waves that taunted me to never return or be kicked back toward sand.
I wore red and white boy-shorts that had become washed upon the sand. Everything else was a bit uncomfortable. Sand was in everything. After a while I just stopped trying to fight it. I was grateful I had no hair for the sand to toy with. I was even more grateful to find shade in the burning heat. It felt like a thousand degrees everywhere except the God-damned ocean. But, nothing would force me back in the water. Nothing. I was stranded. Mentally I was worn-out. Physically I was broken. My arms and legs ached as well as my lungs.
I quickly got to work saving what I could. I gathered things that flooded up. I dried them. I tried to put them to use. Every piece of drift items had there place. I used large rocks to spell out the word 'HELP'. It took an hour, drained me completely, and looked more like the word 'HELF'. I had run out strength plus rocks to carry.
I was very self sufficient. I was a sporty black female with a cleanly shaven head and a series of beautiful tattoos. Their is a large pink and black butterfly just above my breast. There are others, but no matter. I have been told that the look accentuates my small curves. I have a nice, well balanced ass. Dark black nipples and large soft lips. I was a sensual woman. The dizzying water that brought me here was still doing numbers with me head. I rested in the shade of a few tress, waiting for more clothes to dry. I loved the feeling of being naked. It was exhilarating.
I should have kissed the sand, thanking God or however was watching from the nighttime stars above, for my safety. But, I was a stubborn woman of five foot four inches, petite, with a small sporty body I had built through years as a ladies minor league soccer coach. I loved showing those women I could keep up with their young bodies. I sometimes caught myself watching them thinking naughty thoughts. I kept them to myself. No one every knew that the wife of the High School Athletic Director, a devoted Catholic, was thinking lesbian thoughts in private.
I sat in my office just outside of the locker room, and would often drift away in thought of walking right up behind one of those beautiful toned bodies and having my way with it while the water gentle soaked us. I used to rub my pussy under my desk as they got dressed. I was completely trying to deny my urges. But, it they were hard to conceal.
Don't get me wrong, I loved my husband, yet, this other world was calling me. I wanted to experiment so freaking bad, but, we had built up such a life of 'ordinary living' together, I never wanted to hurt him by breaking up what he had built. Still, the urges brought me to orgasmic explosion time and time again in the solitary confinements of my quiet office as they showered.
One girl caught me pleasuring myself one late evening after a scrimmage. She closed the door behind herself and locked it. I was frozen with fear of her turning me in to my boss, Sheryl Douglas. But, she walked right over, sat on my desk, and lifted her towel revealing her smooth shaven pussy to me. She spread her legs and placed my fingers over her aroused clit. I instantly became wet. Her pussy smelled so good. I wanted to dive right in, do things I'd never done before with her, but I was new to this type of sexual escapade. She rocked her hips as I rubbed her pussy. She placed my fingers in her mouth and sucked them hard. I pulled my panties down around my ankles and fucked myself as she forced my face between her legs. And, I was in heaven for the first time since the fantasies began. I sucked and licked her pussy as she pulled her clit up toward my involved tongue.
She lifted my blouse revealing my small perky breasts. I was not proud of my figure back then. She made me feel sexy with only a smile. I thought of my husband. What was I doing. Her finger pinching my nipples threw those thoughts away. She leaned down and sucked my neck. Her hard nipples fell comfortably in my mouth. They were like cherries. Her skin smelled extremely good. Her wet hair felt good in my hands as I ran my fingers through it, then went back to sucking those sweet things like the world was going to end. She leaned me back and showed me how to eat her pussy better. I was a fast learner. She had a tremendous orgasm squirting all over my face and breasts. I had never seen anything like it. I was forever changed. This was new. This was better.
She pulled me up forcefully, place me bent over my desk, and fingered me from behind rough and rigid. Her other hand reached around and rubbed my clit so deep i came quietly all over her fingers. My pussy juice ran down her wrist. She turned me around and kissed me so passionately I forgot about all the men I had ever been with. I was thirty. I had not had many men, mostly my husband, but none of that matter at the instant. I was forever gone, like a comet, changed, and spoiled by a great lover.
That was then, before the private cruise, and before the storm swelled over the rails, killing my former life, I had not the strength before then to come clean with the true nature of who I was. The island changed all that.
I was safe, but others did not make it. Our captain, John Sapporo, drowned after being thrown overboard by a wave three times bigger than our condo. Our cook, Tessa Deen, vanished before the storm hit. My husband, Mark Kusteris, of fifteen years fell over board trying to save me. I felt instantly alone. Agree. I felt abandoned like the things still finding there freedom from the caravan of waves.
The night line was stained with sadness that first night. I was cold and helpless with out shelter. I must have cried to hours before I knew it was not bringing them back. I watched that devilish ocean for days hoping he'd just walk right out of it. Of course when his body never washed ashore, I knew. I knew I would have to face this island alone. Alone I ventured on, trying to find a bit of sanctuary. Sanctuary was a cave behind a waterfall. I slept there the first week, surviving of coconut milk and cooked fish. I was resourceful. Still, I felt awfully isolated, empty, and depressively homesick.
Home was a four bedroom two story Victorian style complex. The place was so large and empty. I could provide children to fill it. He was disappointed. He began to sleep with his secretary, our cook, his mistress. Now, they both laid dead at the bottom of the abysmal depths. Maybe it was my fault. Fault was something I was never good at confessing up to.
I thought, maybe, somehow I had caused the storm to come out of some inner strength for the resentment I felt. After-all, how would you feel if you knew your spouse was cheating on you with the very same person who was serving your meals, washing your clothes, making your bed after they slept in it. Those thoughts filtered up from some repressed place I had forgotten about. Lost memories help me cope. But, the island was doing things to my mind. Like, for instance the crazy thoughts about me conjuring up the storm like Carrie at the prom in that twisted movie by Stephen King. Like, the shadowy images of other human beings on this island after dark, and like the sound of footsteps that always seemed to be traveling behind me.
One day while I was bathing by water fall, a woman appeared from beneath the surface. I wondered about the provenance of this mysterious woman. As she drew in closer, I knew my affinity to her was because I no longer wanting to be alone. Still, my instant attraction toward her was susceptible to her sensual influence. I wanted to hold my breath. She inched her way slowly into arms reach. The water glistened off her amazing body. My heart skipped a beat. An urge pulsed up between my legs.
I need to drink more water, I thought. Then she reached out and touched me. I shot back, off guard by the strange truth of these beautiful piece of heaven naked in front of me. I had never had lesbian thoughts, but I instantly forgot about all my worries as she leaned in and looked deeply into my eyes. Hers were as blue a the sky above us. Her small breast fit perfectly in my hands. Wait, I thought. I didn't remember placing my hands there. I kissed her soft lips. A flash of light ran through my body like electricity from some mystic place beneath the surface of things apparent. I felt a hand underneath the water clutch my inner thigh. I jerked as it slid between my legs and entered me. She kissed me back, went under the water, and began to pleasure me. It was like nothing I'd experienced before. I swear the she must of had gills. The way she stayed down there sucking and fucking me with her tongue was amazing. I placed my hands upon her head and forced her in closer.
I was half drunk from the sun's intense heat, yet, still I knew this was real. I gravitated toward her, as if by natural chemistry, or an invisible force. I closed my eyes and enjoyed her special attention to my tight spamming pussy. When I opened them, there were others around me. Their hands pleased me in ways I could never describe with words. Have you ever felt the pleasure of one hundred little fingers bring you to ecstasy. I have. It is so beautiful. I am so lucky to be alive. I am so lucky I fought an island where I don't have to hide or play 'good wife' for people I don't even respect. I had more orgasms during the night at the hands of the island's inhabitants than I had had my entire life. I was drained, but they kept coming for more as if pleasing me would end their own worries.
They had but one worry. It was a large snake that had started feeding upon them during the day time. So, they spent most of their lives walking in the moon's safe light, making love to one another, and preparing me for my quest to slay such a creature. I was told to me that if I killed the beast, I would be their queen for as long as I lived. Their queen to take as many as them as my sex slaves as I pleased. So, I practiced in my mind ways to slay the creature, while endless women met my side at night.
A trunk full of wine bottles washed ashore. We drank and pleased each other until the sun came up. I slept like a rock facing the ocean as a naked red head rested beside me. Her long flowing hair partially covered my face. I moved it aside. My eyes adjusted to the sun light. There were a few more things being washed ashore. I navigated my way through all the naked satisfied flesh toward them. There was a delicious smell in the air. Some one was making breakfast further up the beach. My stomach growled as I made out what the items were.
Oh crap, I thought. I held one of the items in my hands. "What's that," the redhead asked. "You will all find out tonight,"
I smiled. For the first time in so long as I could remember, nothing else mattered. These women had saved me. I was going to prepay the favor. I turned and looked at my beautiful lover. Her naked flesh basking in the morning light. Fuck, I was in Paradise. I switched on a button and showed her what it was. I placed it between the red hair of her pussy lips. She quivered in my arms. Her eyes lit up.
I was thrown overboard. Declared dead by the people back home who loved me. I believed I was saved for a reason, to save these women, and, save myself in the process. What have I got myself in to? I paused for a moment like I had done so many times before just to clear my head. The island breeze welcomed me to stay as long as I liked. The wind was sweet with conviction.
I wrote these things down at the end of each day. My first entry happened to be; I am a sensual, sexual woman who enjoys the company of my lesbian island ladies.
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