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Author : Jena Martin,Karen E. Bravo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107095526
This is the first book offering a comprehensive historical and contemporary analysis of the emerging business and human rights field.
Author : Jena Martin,Karen E. Bravo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 1316439437
"The adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011 marked a watershed moment, establishing the first global standards for preventing human rights abuses by business. In light of this paradigm shift, The Business and Human Rights Landscape offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the current legal framework. Its essential research tools include in-depth explorations of the UN Guiding Principles from both theoretical and practical standpoints, with case studies of the Rana Plaza building collapse and Kenyan resource extraction. Bookending current analyses are accounts of business and human rights from a historical perspective (discussing the colonial slave trade) and using a forward-looking lens (analyzing labor's role). Bringing together scholars from across the globe, this book represents essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present, or future of business and human rights"--
Author : Dorothée Baumann-Pauly,Justine Nolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317563921
In a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their citizens. The expectation that companies respect human rights in their own operations and in their business relationships is now a business reality that corporations need to respond to. Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Practice is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary textbook that addresses these issues. It examines the regulatory framework that grounds the business and human rights debate and highlights the business and legal challenges faced by companies and stakeholders in improving respect for human rights, exploring such topics as: the regulatory framework that grounds the business and human rights debate, challenges faced by companies and stakeholders in improving human rights, industry-specific human rights standards, current mechanisms to hold corporations to account, future challenges for business and human rights. With supporting case studies throughout, this text provides an overview of current themes in the field and guidance on practical implementation, demonstrating that a thorough understanding of the human rights challenges faced by business is now vital in any business context.
Author : César Rodriguez-Garavito
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107175297
Explores the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global governance approaches to business and human rights, with an emphasis on the UN Guiding Principles.
Author : Brian Iselin
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798387918391
Welcome to Humanising the Bottom Line: A Guide to Balancing Business Success and Human Rights. This e-book is a useful guide for anyone interested in learning about the intersection between business and human rights. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the human rights landscape in the context of business operations and to provide practical solutions for businesses to ensure that they are respecting human rights. Business and human rights refer to the relationship between businesses and their impact on human rights. This is a complex and multifaceted issue that has become increasingly important in recent years. The importance of business and human rights cannot be overstated. Business operations can have a significant impact on the human rights of individuals and communities. It is therefore essential that businesses take steps to ensure that their operations do not violate human rights. In the first section of this book, we will provide an overview of the business and human rights landscape. We will explore the historical background of business and human rights, the international frameworks and standards for business and human rights, and the concept of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. We will also examine case studies of human rights violations by businesses to illustrate the importance of this issue. The second section of the book will focus on specific human rights issues in business operations. We will examine the issue of modern slavery, including forced labour, child labour, human trafficking, and slavery and servitude. We will also explore the environmental impacts of business operations on human rights, including the right to a clean and healthy environment. Discrimination and equality in the workplace, community and land rights, and privacy and data protection will also be discussed. In the third section of the book, we will provide solutions for businesses to ensure that they are respecting human rights. These solutions include corporate responsibility and accountability, human rights audit, human rights due diligence, mainstreaming human rights strategy into corporate strategic planning (ABCD - Backcasting from Human Rights Principles), stakeholder engagement and consultation, remediation for human rights abuses, and multi-stakeholder initiatives and partnerships. In the conclusion of the book, we will summarise the key points of the book and discuss the future of business and human rights. We will also issue a call to action for businesses, governments, and civil society to take steps to ensure that business operations respect human rights. This book can be an important resource for anyone interested in learning about business and human rights. It provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and challenges facing businesses and provides practical solutions for businesses to ensure that they are respecting human rights. The resources section at the end of the book provides additional reading and resources for readers interested in learning more about business and human rights.
Author : Stéphanie Bijlmakers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351171908
Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and the Law examines the responsibilities of business enterprises for human rights from a legal perspective. It analyses the legal status of the ‘corporate responsibility to respect human rights’ as articulated by the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This concept currently reflects an international consensus and is promoted by the UN. The book contemplates the various founding perspectives of the UNGPs, and how the integration of notions such as ‘principled pragmatism’ and ‘polycentric governance’ within its framework provides insights into the future course of law and policy, compliance, and corporate respect for human rights. The book thus takes a global focus, examining the interaction of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), human rights, and the law in a broader global governance context. Setting out a possible future scenario for the legalization of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights that is informed by the UNGPs' founding perspectives and reflects current realities in the human rights landscape, this book will be of great interest to scholars of business ethics, international human rights law, and CSR more broadly.
Author : Eva Brems,Ellen Desmet,Wouter Vandenhole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317268048
Children’s rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law. This volume explores the inter-relationship between children’s rights law and more general human rights law in order to see whether elements from each could successfully inform the other. Children’s rights law has a number of distinctive characteristics, such as the emphasis on the ‘best interests of the child’, the use of general principles, and the inclusion of ‘third parties’ (e.g. parents and other care-takers) in treaty provisions. The first part of this book questions whether these features could be a source of inspiration for general human rights law. In part two, the reverse question is asked: could children’s rights law draw inspiration from developments in other branches of human rights law that focus on other specific categories of rights holders, such as women, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, or older persons? Finally, the interaction between children’s rights law and human rights law – and the potential for their isolation, inspiration or integration – may be coloured or determined by the thematic issue under consideration. Therefore the third part of the book studies the interplay between children’s rights law and human rights law in the context of specific topics: intra-family relations, LGBTQI marginalization, migration, media, the environment and transnational human rights obligations.
Author : Surya Deva,David Bilchitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 45,6 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.
Author : Chiara Macchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462654792
More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the ‘protect, respect, remedy’ trichotomy. The UN Guiding Principles acted as a catalyst for hitherto unprecedented regulatory and judicial developments. The monograph by Macchi proposes a functionalist reading of the state’s duty to regulate the transnational activities of corporations in order to protect human rights and adopts a holistic approach to the corporate responsibility to respect, arguing that environmental and climate due diligence are inherent dimensions of human rights due diligence. In the volume emerging legislations are assessed on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence, as well as the potential and limitations of a binding international treaty on business and human rights. The book also reviews groundbreaking litigation against transnational corporations, such as Lungowe v. Vedanta or Milieudefensie v. Shell, for their human rights and climate change impacts. The book is primarily targeted at academic and non-academic legal experts, as well as at researchers and students looking at business and human rights issues through the lenses of legal studies (particularly international law and European law), political sciences, business ethics, and management. Additionally, it should also find a readership among practitioners working in the public or private sector (consultants, CSR officers, legal officers, etc.) willing to familiarize themselves with the expanding areas of liability, financial and reputational risks connected to the social and environmental impacts of global supply chains. Chiara Macchi is currently Lecturer in Law at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands.
Author : Alex Newton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351131179
The spotlight of global scrutiny has shone particularly brightly on corporations’ adverse impacts on human rights in recent years. Corporations make up more than two-thirds of the world’s top economies today, and so rightly they are being called to account for their impacts on society and the communities in which they operate. The Business of Human Rights demystifies the relevance of human rights for business, explaining how the corporate responsibility to respect human rights under the UN Guiding Principles can be implemented in practice. It provides a straightforward, practical guide that can be easily read and interpreted by managers to help businesses navigate this complex area of legislation and "soft" law to fulfil their responsibilities. It explains the potential legal, financial and reputational implications for corporations and the steps they need to take to address them. The book tracks some of the major global developments in business and human rights, including the emergence of foreign, transnational, and international law and the proliferation of multi-stakeholder initiatives on business and human rights. Case studies from a range of sectors and industries – such as extractives, apparel, fast-moving consumer goods, electronics, and banking and finance – illustrate the enormous risks and opportunities human rights pose for business in practice. The Business of Human Rights will equip corporate executives, sustainability practitioners, academics, students, and anyone interested in business’s impacts on society with the essential information and tools they need to quickly come up to speed with the rapidly evolving area of business and human rights.
Author : James Featherby
Publisher : Sweet & Maxwell
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780956544094
This publication is an essential guide for general counsel and law firms to the changing world of human rights and its importance for global business. The book highlights the growing relationship between human rights and global business and the developing international focus on the issue, particularly as a result of recent United Nations initiatives. Providing detailed commentary from leading international law firms, this first edition focuses on the legal accountability and due diligence responsibilities of corporates based in many of the world's most developed jurisdictions for human rights compliance by their overseas operations.
Author : Muchlinski, Peter T.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781789901283
Focusing on the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) in 2011, this timely book charts the field of business and human rights, finding that corporate responsibility to respect human rights is gradually evolving into a binding legal duty in both national and international law. Following the structure of the UNGPs, Peter T. Muchlinski also covers the state duty to protect against business violations of human rights, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and access to remedies for corporate violations of human rights.
Author : Surya Deva,David Bilchitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Radu Mares
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004210516
Ruggie's reports with a special emphasis on regulatory and governance issues surrounding corporate responsibility. How does international human rights law handle corporations? Are we beginning to grasp the complexities and impacts of financial markets on human rights? What kind of corporate due diligence can make supply chains more socially sustainable? Why should parent companies act when their affiliates infringe rights? What is the potential of national human rights institutions in the area of business and human rights? What is the role of states and law in the social change process promoted by the corporate responsibility movement? How do we 'orchestrate' polycentric governance regimes to ensure respect for human rights?
Author : Eva Brems,Ellen Desmet,Wouter Vandenhole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317268055
Children’s rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law. This volume explores the inter-relationship between children’s rights law and more general human rights law in order to see whether elements from each could successfully inform the other. Children’s rights law has a number of distinctive characteristics, such as the emphasis on the ‘best interests of the child’, the use of general principles, and the inclusion of ‘third parties’ (e.g. parents and other care-takers) in treaty provisions. The first part of this book questions whether these features could be a source of inspiration for general human rights law. In part two, the reverse question is asked: could children’s rights law draw inspiration from developments in other branches of human rights law that focus on other specific categories of rights holders, such as women, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, or older persons? Finally, the interaction between children’s rights law and human rights law – and the potential for their isolation, inspiration or integration – may be coloured or determined by the thematic issue under consideration. Therefore the third part of the book studies the interplay between children’s rights law and human rights law in the context of specific topics: intra-family relations, LGBTQI marginalization, migration, media, the environment and transnational human rights obligations.
