Download or read book Human Rights Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment written by Gro Nystuen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can businesses and their shareholders avoid moral and legal complicity in human rights violations? This central and contemporary issue in the field of ethics, politics and law is of concern to intergovernmental organizations such as the UN and to many NGOs, as well as investors and employees. In this volume legal scholars and political philosophers identify and address the intertwined issues of moral and legal complicity in human rights violations by companies and those who invest in them. By describing the legal aspects of human rights violations in the corporate sphere, addressing the complicity of companies with regard to such norms and exploring the influence of investors, the book provides a thorough introduction to corporate social responsibility. Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment will set the research agenda on socially responsible investment for years to come.
Download or read book Human Rights Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment written by Gro Nystuen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines companies' and investors' moral and legal complicity in human rights violations in the context of globalisation.
Download or read book Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations written by Luna Barakat and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Rights Law and Business written by Jernej Letnar Černič and published by Europa Law Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jernej Letnar Cernic is a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. He completed his doctorate in 2009 at the School of Law. University of Aberdeen. Jernej has worked in the European Ombudsman's Office, the Superior Court of the Republic of Slovenia, the Law Institute in Ljubljana, the International Criminal Court and the University of Aberdeen. His research interests are in human rights law, business and human rights, investment law, international criminal law, transitional justice and criminal law. Jernej is a member of the International Human Rights Committee of the International Law Association. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Enron Corporation written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laws of India
Download or read book Profits Versus Human Rights written by Rethabile Mathabathe and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Complicity for Human Rights Violations written by Ralitsa Georgieva and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silent Corporate Complicity of Transnational Corporations in Gross Human Rights Violations Committed by Host States written by Luna Barakat and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Business and Human Rights written by Dalia Palombo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the accountability of European home States for their failure to secure the human rights of victims from host States against transnational enterprises. It argues for a reconfiguration of the relationship between multinational enterprises and individuals, both of which have been profoundly changed by globalisation. Enterprises are now supranational entities with numerous affiliates all over the world. Likewise, individuals are increasingly part of a global community. Despite this, the relationship between the two is deregulated. Addressing this gap, this study proposes an innovative business and human rights litigation strategy. Human rights advocates could file a test case against a European home State, at the European Court of Human Rights, for its failure to secure the rights of victims vis-à-vis European multinational enterprises. The book illustrates why such a strategy is needed, and points to the lack of effective legal remedies against European multinationals. The goal is to empower victims from developing countries against European States which are failing to hold multinational enterprises accountable for human rights abuses.
Download or read book Corporate Complicity Legal Accountability written by International Commission of Jurists (1952- ). Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transitional Justice Corporate Accountability and Socio Economic Rights written by Laura García Martín and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersection of two emergent and vibrant fields of study in international human rights law: transitional justice and corporate accountability for human rights abuses. While both have received significant academic and political attention, the potential links between them remain largely unexplored. This book addresses the normative question of how international human rights law should deal with corporate accountability and violations of economic, social and cultural rights in transitional justice processes. Drawing on the Argentinian transitional justice process, the book outlines the theoretical and practical challenges of including corporate accountability in transitional justice processes through existing mechanisms. Offering specific insights about how to deal with those challenges, it argues that consideration of the role of all actors, and the whole spectrum of human rights violated, is crucial to properly address the root causes of violence and conflict as well as to contribute to a sustainable and positive peace. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to students and scholars of transitional justice, human rights law, corporate law and international law.
Download or read book Children s Rights and Business written by Gamze Erdem Türkelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive legal inquiry into children's rights and business, drawing on insights from various disciplines, enriched by in-depth case studies.
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 Regaining Paradise Lost Indigenous Land Rights and Tourism written by Mary Kristerie A. Baleva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Kristerie A. Baleva’s Regaining Paradise Lost: Indigenous Land Rights and Tourism uses the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as its overarching legal framework to analyze the intersections of indigenous land rights and the tourism industry. Drawing from treatises, treaties, and case law, it traces the development of indigenous rights discourse from the Age of Discovery to the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The book highlights the Philippines, home to a rich diversity of indigenous peoples, and a country that considers tourism as an important contributor to economic development. It chronicles the Ati Community’s 15-year struggle for recognition of their ancestral domains in Boracay Island, the region’s premiere beach destination.
Download or read book Quellen zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte written by Daniel Stahl and published by Wallstein Verlag. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aktivistinnen, Völkerrechtler, Anwälte, NGO-Mitarbeiterinnen, Politiker und Politikerinnen erzählen, was der Einsatz für Menschenrechte in ihrem Leben bedeutet hat. Menschenrechte wurden im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts zu einem wichtigen Bezugspunkt nationaler und internationaler Politik. Die vorliegende Quellensammlung versteht sich als Angebot, diese Entwicklung nachvollziehbar zu machen. Die hier versammelten lebensgeschichtlichen Interviews geben Aufschluss darüber, was unter dem Kampf für Menschenrechte im Verlauf der letzten Jahrzehnte verstanden wurde. Die befragten Aktivistinnen, Völkerrechtler, Anwälte, NGO-Mitarbeiterinnen, Politiker und Politikerinnen geben dabei ganz unterschiedliche Antworten auf die Fragen, wofür sie eigentlich gekämpft haben und wie ihr Engagement in der alltäglichen Praxis aussah. Der Stellenwert, den dieser Einsatz im Leben von Menschen einnahm, schwankte dabei und war gesellschaftlichen, politischen und individuellen Konjunkturen unterworfen. Und nicht alles, was im Nachhinein als Einsatz für Menschenrechte erschien, war ursprünglich auch so gemeint. Ziel der Interview-Sammlung ist es, das Engagement für Menschenrechte im gesamtbiographischen Zusammenhang zu verorten und verschiedene Bedeutungen aufzuzeigen, die sie im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts in verschiedenen Weltregionen erlangten.
Download or read book Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing written by Benjamin J. Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about fiduciary law’s influence on the financial economy’s environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability. Fiduciary law governs how trustees, fund managers or other custodians administer the investment portfolios owned by beneficiaries. Written for a diverse audience, not just legal scholars, the book examines in a multi-jurisdictional context an array of philosophical, institutional and economic issues that have shaped the movement for responsible investing and its legal framework. Fiduciary law has acquired greater influence in the financial economy in tandem with the extraordinary recent growth of institutional funds such as pension plans and insurance company portfolios. While the fiduciary prejudice against responsible investing has somewhat waned in recent years, owing mainly to reinterpretations of fiduciary and trust law, significant barriers remain. This book advances the notion of ‘nature’s trust’ to metaphorically signal how fiduciary responsibility should accommodate society’s dependence on long-term environmental well-being. Financial institutions, managing vast investment portfolios on behalf of millions of beneficiaries, should manage those investments with regard to the broader social interest in sustaining ecological health. Even for their own financial self-interest, investors over the long-term should benefit from maintaining nature’s capital. We should expect everyone to act in nature’s trust, from individual funds to market regulators. The ancient public trust doctrine could be refashioned for stimulating this change, and sovereign wealth funds should take the lead in pioneering best practices for environmentally responsible investing.
