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Author : Gwynne L. Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Olivier De Schutter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847312761
This volume offers a systematic overview of the different tools through which the human rights accountability of transnational corporations may be improved. It first examines the responsibility of States in controlling transnational corporations, emphasizing both the limits imposed by the protection of the rights of investors under investment treaties and the potential of the US Alien Tort Claims Act and other similar extra-territorial legislations. It then turns to self-regulation by transnational corporations, through the use of codes of conduct or international framework agreements. It then discusses recent attempts at the global level to improve the human rights accountability of corporations by the direct imposition on corporations of obligations under international law. Finally, it considers the use of public procurement policies or of conditionalities in the lending policies of multilateral lending institutions in order to incentivize TNCs to behave ethically. Altogether, the book offers a rigorous legal analysis of these different developments and critically appraises their potential.
Author : J. Frynas,S. Pegg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403937520
Bringing together a diverse group of contributors, this collection addresses the impact of transnational corporations on human rights. Topics covered include corporate social responsibility; the impact of corporations on internal conflicts, and codes of conduct. Case studies range from the negative effects of the Nigerian oil industry to the positive engagement by a logging company with the Nuu-chah-nulth people in Canada. The book uniquely combines the discussion of conceptual issues with an in-depth examination of specific corporations and industries.
Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Michael K. Addo
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041112460
What is the nature and scope of corporate responsibility with regard to human rights? Should companies themselves be responsible for human rights violations involving themselves or their subsidiaries? What principles should guide business in countries known to violate human rights? Is self-regulation sufficient, or are corporations best regulated by national or international codes, and on what should these codes be based? These are some of the many questions which this ground-breaking collection of essays seeks to address as it assesses the value of applying human rights standards to transnational corporations. The increasing involvement of corporations in the public domain and the steady reduction of governmental involvement in commercial and social undertakings has created a desperate need to rethink the nature and role of the private corporation and its regulation. This volume, which contains a balanced collection of analyses from all interested sources in the corporate responsibility debate, is the result of a three-day conference during which government officials, corporate executives, NGOs, and representatives of inter-governmental organisations, as well as academic researchers, came together for the first time to discuss the emerging issues. The essays have been arranged under six broad themes: policy issues, regulation, issues of application, matters of doctrine, globalisation and case studies. In addition, each section contains the opinion (not simply a summary of proceedings) of a nominated rapporteur who draws together the strands of each theme, and, where necessary, broadens the analysis to cover important issues which may not have been addressed. At the heart of this volume is the attempt to define an effective framework for transnational corporate responsibility through international human rights standards. It will be of vital interest to corporate legal advisers, human rights practitioners, NGOs, government law offices and academics, as well as to all those concerned with human rights and their place in the modern world.
Author : Simon Baughen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : David Jason Karp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107037885
An original analysis of which global actors are responsible for human rights in today's world and why.
Author : Oonagh E. Fitzgerald
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781928096948
The contributors to Corporate Citizen explore the legal frameworks and standards of conduct for multinational corporations. In a globalized world governed by domestic and international law, these corporations can be everywhere and nowhere at once, reaping financial benefits and enjoying the protections of investor-state arbitration but rarely being held accountable for the economic, environmental, and human rights harms they may have caused. Given the far-reaching power and success of the transnational corporation, and the many legal tools allowing these companies to avoid liability, how can governments protect their citizens? Broad-ranging in perspective, colourful and thought-provoking, the chapters in Corporate Citizen make the case that because the success of corporate global citizenship risks undermining national and international democratic governance, the multinational corporation must be more closely scrutinized and controlled – in the service of humanity and the protection of the natural environment.
Author : Alice De Jonge
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857930392
This well-documented work will appeal to corporate leaders interested in understanding the related practicalities of international corporate liability as well as post-graduate students in international business and international policy studies. Policymakers, academics and researchers interested in a unique perspective on the future of the global corporation as an internationally responsible global citizen will find much to inte rest them in this book.
Author : Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Surya Deva,David Bilchitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Julia Ruth-Maria Wetzel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319313252
This book investigates how human rights law can be applied to corporate entities. To date there have been insufficient international legal mechanisms to bring corporations to justice for their misconduct abroad. The book argues that rather than trying to solve the problem locally, an international approach to corporate human rights compliance needs to be sought to prevent future corporate human rights abuses. Implementing effective and enforceable human rights compliance policies at corporate level allows businesses to prevent negative human rights impacts such as loss of revenue, high litigation costs and damage to reputation. By considering human rights to be an inherent part of their business strategy, corporations will be well equipped to meet national and regional business and human rights standards, which will inevitably be implemented in the next few years. This approach, in turn, also furthers the fundamental aim of international human rights law.
Author : Manoj Kumar Sinha
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 8132111397
In the 21st century, one of the most noteworthy changes in the human rights debate relates to the increased recognition of the link between business and human rights. This book is an attempt to explore this relationship and also to look into the obligations of the state and transnational corporations in the promotion of human rights. Business and Human Rights discusses how globalization has affected individuals in the enjoyment of their human rights in relation to the activities of corporations. The book addresses what additional steps the states should take to protect against human rights abuses by business enterprises that are owned or controlled by the state. Moreover, it covers, in depth, the role and contribution of the United Nations in business and human rights. The book includes several real-life case studies to help the readers understand the topics discussed.
Author : Surya Deva,David Bilchitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Angelica Bonfanti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429811258
Transnational business activities are important drivers of growth for developing and the least developed countries. However, they can also negatively impact the enjoyment of human rights. In some cases, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have even been accused of grave human rights abuses in the territory of the states where their subsidiaries operate. Since the parent companies of many MNEs are incorporated under the law of European states, those countries’ domestic law and the European legal framework play a crucial role in establishing how their activities should be conducted – also throughout their supply chains – and which remedies will be available when corporate human rights violations occur. In recent years, the European Union, the Council of Europe and their Member States have been adopting policies and legislation to ensure respect for human rights by businesses and have developed a body of related case law. These legal instruments can be considered the European responses to the challenges posed at international-law level, and they constitute the focus of research of this book. Through its collected chapters – written by scholars and practitioners under the direction of the editor, Angelica Bonfanti – the book identifies the European solutions to the business and human rights international legal issues, provides an overall assessment of their effectiveness, and examines their potential evolution.