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Author : Gwynne L. Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107199316
This account of business-related human rights violations details the barriers victims face when seeking remedies and offers policy solutions.
Author : Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317216063
This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s. Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for understanding how those struggles are played out in the global sphere. In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights violations, the book explores the development of a range of political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in how international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being shaped by global struggles against corporate power.
Author : Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317216056
This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s. Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for understanding how those struggles are played out in the global sphere. In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights violations, the book explores the development of a range of political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in how international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being shaped by global struggles against corporate power.
Author : Nadia Bernaz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317233855
Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately prevented and remedied. Business and human rights as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of business – companies and businesspeople – in the human rights area, or, to phrase it differently, to bridge the accountability gap. Bridging the accountability gap is to be understood as both setting standards and holding corporations and businesspeople to account if violations occur. Adopting a legal perspective, this book presents the ways in which this dual undertaking has been and could be further carried out in the future, and evaluates the extent to which the various initiatives in the field bridge the corporate accountability gap. It looks at the historical background of the field of business and human rights, and examines salient periods, events and cases. The book then goes on to explore the relevance of international human rights law and international criminal law for global business. International soft law and policy initiatives which have blossomed in recent years are evaluated along with private modes of regulation. The book also examines how domestic law, especially the domestic law of multinational companies’ home countries, can be used to prevent and redress corporate related human rights violations.
Author : Simon Baughen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9780857934765
The effects of globalisation, together with the increase in foreign investment and resource development within the developing world, have created a context for human rights abuses by States in which transnational corporations are complicit. This timely book considers how these ‘governance gaps’, as identified by Professor John Ruggie, may be closed. Simon Baughen examines the status of corporations under international law, the civil liability of corporations for their participation in international crimes and self-regulation through voluntary codes of conduct, such as the 2011 UN Guiding Principles.
Author : John Gerard Ruggie
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393089769
"A true master class in the art of making the impossible possible." —Paul Polman One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business. Indeed, from Indonesian sweatshops to oil-based violence in Nigeria, the challenges of regulating harmful corporate practices in some of the world’s most difficult regions long seemed insurmountable. Human rights groups and businesses were locked in a stalemate, unable to find common ground. In 2005, the United Nations appointed John Gerard Ruggie to the modest task of clarifying the main issues. Six years later, he had accomplished much more than that. Ruggie had developed his now-famous "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights," which provided a road map for ensuring responsible global corporate practices. The principles were unanimously endorsed by the UN and embraced and implemented by other international bodies, businesses, governments, workers’ organizations, and human rights groups, keying a revolution in corporate social responsibility. Just Business tells the powerful story of how these landmark “Ruggie Rules” came to exist. Ruggie demonstrates how, to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem, he had to abandon many widespread and long-held understandings about the relationships between businesses, governments, rights, and law, and develop fresh ways of viewing the issues. He also takes us through the journey of assembling the right type of team, of witnessing the severity of the problem firsthand, and of pressing through the many obstacles such a daunting endeavor faced. Just Business is an illuminating inside look at one of the most important human rights developments of recent times. It is also an invaluable book for anyone wanting to learn how to navigate the tricky processes of global problem-solving and consensus-building and how to tackle big issues with ambition, pragmatism, perseverance, and creativity.
Author : Yousuf Aftab,Audrey Mocle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 0433478608
"This book is about corporate social responsibility and business & human rights. It discusses international law and how the emerging litigation thereof."--
Author : A. Grear
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780230274631
Against the backdrop of globalization and mounting evidence of the corporate subversion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, Anna Grear interrogates the complex tendencies within law that are implicated in the emergence of 'corporate humanity'. Grear presents a critical account of legal subjectivity, linking it with law's intimate relationship with liberal capitalism in order to suggest law's special receptivity to the corporate form. She argues that in the field of human rights law, particularly within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, human embodied vulnerability should be understood as the foundation of human rights and as a key qualifying characteristic of the human rights subject. The need to redirect human rights in order to resist their colonization by powerful economic global actors could scarcely be more urgent.
Author : Surya Deva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415668217
The quest to establish an effective regulatory mechanism to ensure that corporations comply with human rights responsibilities has gained momentum in the last decade or so, however, despite these efforts, no robust regulatory mechanism is in sight to provide effective remedies to victims of corporate human rights abuses. Against this background this book provides a theoretical framework to overcome regulatory challenges experienced in holding multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable for violation of human rights.
Author : Surya Deva,David Bilchitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107036871
This book critically evaluates the Ruggie Framework and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and investigates the normative foundations as well as the nature, extent and enforcement of corporate obligations for the realisation of human rights.
Author : David Kinley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351929622
The erstwhile unlikely coupling of human rights and corporations is now a typical feature of corporate/community relations. High-profile corporate infringements of human rights, the rise and rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and on-going efforts to regulate corporate behaviour through legal regimes, at both domestic and international levels, have spawned a mountain of academic literature and commentary. This volume assembles the leading essays from this body of work. Together they frame the relationship between human rights and corporations by charting its history and salient features; tackle the conceptual perspectives of the relationship and detail the practice, problems and potential of the relationship.
Author : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211542014
"This publication contains the 'Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework', which were developed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. The Special Representative annexed the Guiding Principles to his final report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/17/31), which also includes an introduction to the Guiding Principles and an overview of the process that led to their development. The Human Rights Council endorsed the Guiding Principles in its resolution 17/4 of 16 June 2011."--P. iv.
Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781841134574
This book examines ways of holding multinational corporations liable for offshore human rights abuses in the courts of the companies' home States.
Author : Georges Enderle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108830805
Enderle illustrates the importance of corporate responsibility by integrating wealth creation and human rights. An invaluable reference for students, teachers and researchers in business and economic ethics, social sciences and human rights studies, as well as for leaders in business, civil society organizations and international institutions.
Author : Surya Deva,David Bilchitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107199118
This book provides a sustained treatment of the politico-legal context and content of a proposed business and human rights treaty.