Download or read book Frequently Asked Questions about the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, establishing them as the global expected standard of conduct with regard to business impact on human rights. The Guiding Principles were developed based on six years of research and global multi-stakeholder consultations. These Frequently Asked Questions aim to support stakeholder uptake and understanding of the Guiding Principles. This publication is not intended as an operational guide, and does not change or add to the provisions of the Guiding Principles, but it provides additional background explanation to support a full understanding of their meaning and intent. This FAQ is a resource developed for a general audience and aims to be relevant for all stakeholders, including business, governments, civil society, investors, lawyers and others who are interested in business and human rights issues.
Download or read book The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights written by Barnali Choudhury and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive Commentary provides an in-depth analysis of each of the 31 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as well as the 10 Principles for Responsible Contracts. It engages in both a legal and contextual examination of the Principles alongside their application to real world practices at both the domestic and international levels.
Download or read book Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Business and Human Rights written by Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Teaching Business and Human Rights written by Anthony Ewing and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business and human rights (BHR) is a rapidly developing field at the intersection of business, law, and public policy. Teaching Business and Human Rights is a practical guide and resource for the growing community of BHR teachers, students, and practitioners – from advocates and policymakers to business managers and investors. Chapter authors explain common BHR topics, suggest teaching approaches that work in the classroom, and identify helpful teaching resources. Chapters cover the building blocks of a BHR curriculum: foundational topics including corporate responsibility, human rights, and human rights due diligence; tools, such as legislation and litigation, to provide remedy and hold companies accountable for their human rights impacts; and the specific rights affected by businesses in different industries.
Download or read book The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights written by Radu Mares and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of corporate responsibilities has had a tumultuous history at the United Nations. When the Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed John Ruggie’s Guiding Principles in June 2011, it was the first time that the UN stated authoritatively its expectations in the area of business and human rights. This volume captures this special moment in time: a moment of taking stock of a successfully concluded UN Special Representative mandate (2005–2011) and of preparing for the massive task of following up with more operational guidance, effective governance mechanisms and sound theoretical treatments. The 12 chapters in this collection offer an in-depth analysis of 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? Academics and practitioners, policymakers, business executives, civil society activists and legal professionals will find this collection useful as they embark on the difficult but exciting journey of refining and contextualising Ruggie’s foundational work.
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Download or read book General Principles for Business and Human Rights in International Law written by Ludovica Chiussi Curzi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In General Principles for Business and Human Rights in International Law Ludovica Chiussi Curzi offers a critical analysis of the relevance of general principles of law in the multifaceted business and human rights field.
Download or read book The Business of Human Rights written by Alex Newton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights written by Surya Deva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a sustained treatment of the politico-legal context and content of a proposed business and human rights treaty.
Download or read book Human Rights Obligations of Business written by Surya Deva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Business Human Rights and the Environment The Evolving Agenda written by Chiara Macchi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights written by Maria Macek and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since about the mid-1980th years all over the world the Neo-liberalism policy all over the world promote the idea, that this policy is the best for all. In the reality this can be discussed on the background of the liberal theorie from Adam Smith and the social theorie from Keynes1. The reality now are the ecological and economical change all over the world. The reality is the rise up from macroeconimical disparities between regions in the states, between the states and last but not least between the people from the smallest municipality to the biggest city all over the world. Real is also the global financal crisis. The reality now is also the growth of ecological problems and within more natural catastrophes likes tsunamis, floots, storms, hotwaves, the higher temperature of the world, the mutation of wildlife flora and fauna, the rise up of different water problems. The reality is also, that the resurces all over the world became fewer, on the first position mineral oil. The reality are new big wars like the war in Irak, Afghanistan, Islamic countries in Africas. It is also the reality, that Transnational Companies make a big profit from all this problems whitout respect for Human Rights. The question is, are „The Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights with its „Protect, Respect and Remedy framework an effective mechanism to combat violations of human rights by business enterprise. Since about the mid-1980th years all over the world the Neo-liberalism policy all over the world promote the idea, that this policy is the best for all. In the reality this can be discussed on the background of the liberal theorie from Adam Smith and the social theorie from Keynes The reality now are the ecological and economical change all over the world. The reality is the rise up from macroeconimical disparities between regions in the states, between the states and last but not least between the people from the smallest municipality to the biggest city all over the world. Real is also the global financal crisis. The reality now is also the growth of ecological problems and within more natural catastrophes likes tsunamis, floots, storms, hotwaves, the higher temperature of the world, the mutation of wildlife flora and fauna, the rise up of different water problems. The reality is also, that the resurces all over the world became fewer, on the first position mineral oil. The reality are new big wars like the war in Irak, Afghanistan, Islamic countries in Africa.
Download or read book Handbook on Human Rights Impact Assessment written by Nora Götzmann and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights impact assessment (HRIA) has increasingly gained traction among state, business and civil society actors since the endorsement of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by the Human Rights Council in 2011. This timely and insightful Handbook addresses HRIA in the context of business and human rights.
Download or read book Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights written by Surya Deva and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2011, the UN Human Rights Council endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (GPs) drafted by Professor John Ruggie, the former UN Secretary General's Special Representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations. The GPs are based on the 'protect, respect and remedy' framework proposed by Ruggie in 2008. In addition to offering a contextual analysis of he GPs and the Framework, this article critically examines the implications flowing from these for companies. In particular, it highlights the steps that companies are expected to take in order to fulfil their 'responsibility to respect' human rights and the challenges that they are likely to experience in doing so. It is argued that although GPs do not offer any robust or ready-made solutions to the current situation of corporate impunity for human rights violations, they offer some guidance to companies - especially those with good intentions - on how to conduct responsible business.
Download or read book Advanced Introduction to Business and Human Rights written by Muchlinski, Peter T. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations written by Centre on Transnational Corporations (United Nations) and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-04-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international conferences held each year at Fordham University in New York provide the most definitive analysis of US & EEC Antitrust & Trade Law. These annual bound volumes of the proceedings furnish explanations of the myriad of US/EC structures, players & roles that impact on antitrust. The following volumes are available: 1986 United States & Common Market Antitrust Policies 1987 North American & Common Market Antitrust & Trade Law 1991 Practice of Law, Regulation, Ethnics & Liability 1992 EC & US Competition Law & Policy 1993 Antitrust in a Global Economy 1980-1991 Fordham Index of Tables of Cases
