Download or read book Corporate Social Responsibility written by Catherine Malecki and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is setting new missions for companies and shining a welcome light on issues such as the behaviour of board members, shared value, the well-being of stakeholders, the protection of vulnerable individuals and the roles played by public opinion and shareholders. This timely book seeks to lay the foundations for a sustainable corporate governance based on the European Commission definition of CSR as ‘the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society’. More generally, this sustainable corporate governance responds to some of the pressing challenges of the 21st century, from sustainable finance and climate change to carbon reduction and population growth.
Download or read book Relationships between International Criminal Law and Other Branches of International Law written by William A. Schabas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This course investigates the relationships between international criminal law and other branches of international law. It begins by examining four issues of general international law: the principal sources of international law, jurisdiction and immunities, State responsibility, and use of force. It then explores internationalhumanitarian law, focusing on definitions of war crimes and difficulties in linking IHL and ICL. Next, it examines refugee law, paying particular attention to the exclusion of war criminals from refugee protection and to international crimes that may be related to the rights and treatment of refugees. The final chapter explores the relationship between ICL and human rights law, examining the position of human rights within the Rome Statute of the ICC, as well as the human rights aspects of genocide, crimes against humanity, various procedural rights relating to fair international trials and the contribution of human rights fact-finding mechanisms.
Download or read book Non State Actors in International Law written by Math Noortmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role and position of non-state actors in international law is the subject of a long-standing and intensive scholarly debate. This book explores the participation of this new category of actors in an international legal system that has historically been dominated by states. It explores the most important issues, actors and theoretical approaches with respect to these new participants in international law. It provides the reader with a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the most important legal and political developments and perspectives. Relevant non-state actors discussed in this volume include, in particular, international governmental organisations, international non-governmental organisations, multinational companies, investors and armed opposition groups. Their legal position is considered in relation to specific issue-areas, such as humanitarian law, human rights, the use of force and international responsibility. The main legal theories on non-state actors' position in international law – neo-positivism, the policy-oriented approach and transnational law – are covered at the beginning of the book, and the essential political science perspectives – on non-state actors' role in international politics and globalisation, as well as their soft power – are presented at the end.
Download or read book Social Justice and the World of Work written by Brian Langille and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading international thinkers take up the demanding challenge to rethink our understanding of social justice at work and our means for achieving it – at a time when global forces are tearing the familiar fabric of our working lives and the laws regulating them. When fabric is torn we can see deeply into it, understand its structural weaknesses, and imagine alterations in the name of resilience and sustainability. Seizing that opportunity, the authoritative commentators examine the lessons revealed by the pandemic and other global shocks for our ideas about justice at work, and how to advance that cause in the world as we now find it. The chapters deliver critical re-assessments of our goals, explore our new challenges, and creatively re-imagine trajectories for progress on two global fronts - via international institutions and by a myriad of other transnational techniques. These forward-looking essays are in honour of Francis Maupain, whose international career and scholarly writing are inspiring models for those who, in a changing world, seize opportunities for creativity in the pursuit of global justice at work.
Download or read book Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility written by Catherine Kessedjian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses one of the core challenges in the corporate social responsibility (or business and human rights) debate: how to ensure adequate access to remedy for victims of corporate abuses that infringe upon their human rights. However, ensuring access to remedy depends on a series of normative and judicial elements that become highly complex when disputes are transnational. In such cases, courts need to consider and apply different laws that relate to company governance, to determine the competent forum, to define which bodies of law to apply, and to ensure the adequate execution of judgments. The book also discusses how alternative methods of dispute settlement can relate to this topic, and the important role that private international law plays in access to remedy for corporate-related human rights abuses. This collection comprises 20 national reports from jurisdictions in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia, addressing the private international law aspects of corporate social responsibility. They provide an overview of the legal differences between geographical areas, and offer numerous examples of how states and their courts have resolved disputes involving private international law elements. The book draws two preliminary conclusions: that there is a need for a better understanding of the role that private international law plays in cases involving transnational elements, in order to better design transnational solutions to the issues posed by economic globalisation; and that the treaty negotiations on business and human rights in the United Nations could offer a forum to clarify and unify several of the elements that underpin transnational disputes involving corporate human rights abuses, which could also help to identify and bridge the existing gaps that limit effective access to remedy. Adopting a comparative approach, this book appeals to academics, lawyers, judges and legislators concerned with the issue of access to remedy and reparation for corporate abuses under the prism of private international law.
Download or read book African Human Rights Yearbook Annuaire Africain des Droits de l Homme Volume 1 2017 written by and published by Pretoria University Law Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Human Rights Yearbook Volume 1 (2017) The three institutions making up the African regional human rights system, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, decided to jointly publish the African Human Rights Yearbook, to spearhead studies on the promotion and protection of human rights, and to provide a forum for constructive engagement about the African human rights system with academics and other human rights commentators on the continent. Volume 1 of the Yearbook, published in 2017, contains fifteen contributions by scholars from Africa and beyond. Annuaire Africain des Droits de l’Homme Volume 1 (2017) Les trois institutions qui composent le système régional africain des droits de l’homme, la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples, la Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples et le Comité d’experts africains sur les droits et le bien-être de l’enfant ont décidé de publier conjointement l’Annuaire Africain des Droits de l’Homme pour encourager les études sur la promotion et la protection des droits de l’homme et offrir un forum d’interaction constructive sur le système avec les universitaires et observateurs du continent. Le Volume 1 de l’Annuaire, publié en 2017, contient quinze contributions de chercheurs du continent et d’ailleurs. Table of Contents Acknowledgements/Remerciements Preface Préface Editorial Éditorial Vulnerability of women in Africa to extrajudicial killings Anyangwe, A Protecting the African child in a changing climate: are our existing safeguards adequate? Boshoff, E The relevance of substantive equality in the African regional human rights system’s jurisprudence to women’s land and property rights Chekera-Radu, YT Practices and challenges in implementing women’s right to political participation under the African Women’s Rights Protocol in Zimbabwe Zvobgo, EF and Dziva, C Developing norms and standards on maternal mortality in Africa: lessons from UN human rights bodies Afuluke-Eruchalu, O and Durojaye, E Le rôle des acteurs nongouvernementaux dans la mobilisation juridique en faveur du Protocole de Maputo Guignard, L Happy 18th birthday to the African Children’s Charter: not counting its days but making its days count Mezmur, BD Monitoring implementation of the decisions and judgments of the African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Murray, R; Long, D; Ayeni, V; and Somé, A Why should we obey you? Enhancing implementation of rulings by regional courts Nyman-Metcalf, K and Papageorgiou, I Contextualising the corporate human rights responsibility in Africa: a social expectation or legal obligation? Okoloise, C La promotion de la démocratie et d’un ordre constitutionnel de qualité par le système africain des droits fondamentaux: entre acquis et défis Olinga, AD La jurisprudence de la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples: entre particularisme et universalité Ondo, T Actualising women’s participation in politics and governance in Africa: the case of Ghana and Kenya Owiso, R and Sefah, B Article 6 of the African Women’s Rights Protocol: towards the protection of the rights of women in polygamous marriages Oyugi, P ‘It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer’: the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and fair trial rights in Tanzania Possi, A Du ‘droit de la force’ à la force du droit: pour la dépénalisation de l’avortement à Madagascar Rabenoro, M La Cour et la Commission africaines des droits de l’homme et des peuples: noces constructives ou cohabitation ombrageuse? Yerima, SZ
Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development written by Olivier de Schutter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect on developing countries of the arrival of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been a subject of controversy for decades in the development community. The debate over the relationship between FDI in developing countries and the progress of these countries towards human development is an ongoing and often heated one. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective combining insights from international investment law, human rights law and economics, this book offers an original contribution to the debate. It explores how improvements ...
Download or read book A Comparative Look at Regulation of Corporate Tax Avoidance written by Karen B. Brown and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a fascinating look at the anti-tax avoidance strategies employed by more than fifteen countries in eastern and western Europe, Canada, the Pacific Rim, Asia, Africa, and the United States. It surveys the similarities and differences in anti-avoidance regimes and contains detailed chapters for each country surveying the moral and legal dimensions of the problem. The proliferation of tax avoidance schemes in recent years signals the global dimensions of a problem presenting a serious challenge to the effective administration of tax laws. Tax avoidance involves unacceptable manipulation of the law to obtain a tax advantage. These transactions support wasteful behavior in which corporations enter into elaborate, circuitous arrangements solely to minimize tax liability. It frustrates the ability of governments to collect sufficient revenue to provide essential public goods and services. Avoidance of duly enacted provisions (or manipulation to secure tax benefits unintended by the legislature) poses a threat to the effective operation of a free society for the benefit of a small group of members who seek the privilege of shifting their tax burden onto others merely to compete in the world of commerce. In a world in which world treasuries struggle for the resources to battle terrorist threats and to secure a decent standard of living for constituents tax avoidance can bring economies close to the edge of sustainability. As tax avoidance is one of the top concerns of most nations, the importance of this work cannot be overstated.
Download or read book Human Rights Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Investor State Dispute Settlement written by Tomoko Ishikawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the 'unexhausted' potential in current investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms to advance investors' responsibility for their conduct.
Download or read book General Reports of the XXth General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law Rapports g n raux du XX me Congr s g n ral de l Acad mie internationale de droit compar written by Katharina Boele-Woelki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores convergences of legal doctrine despite jurisdictional, cultural and political barriers, as well as divergences due to such barriers, examining topics that are of vital importance to contemporary legal scholars. Written by leading experts from all continents, its 26 chapters present a comparative analysis of cutting-edge legal issues of the 21st century. While each of the countries covered stands alone as a sovereign state, in a technologically advanced world their disparate systems nonetheless show comparable strategies in dealing with complex legal issues. Several of the chapters show how, in addition to state normative production and state adjudication, a growing panoply of non-state instruments and non-state adjudication are becoming more and more central to the legal field. This book is a key addition to the library of any scholar wanting to keep abreast of the major trends in contemporary law. Representing the current state of law in a vast range of areas, it covers each topic from a comparative perspective. Cet ouvrage, en examinant des sujets d'une importance vitale pour les juristes contemporains, traite des convergences de la doctrine juridique malgré les barrières juridictionnelles, culturelles et politiques ainsi que des divergences dues à ces barrières. Écrits par d'éminents universitaires de tous les continents, ses 26 chapitres présentent une analyse comparative de sujets juridiques majeurs du 21e siècle. Dans un monde technologiquement avancé, bien que chaque pays analysé dans cet ouvrage demeure autonome en tant qu'État souverain, l’ensemble des systèmes disparates présente néanmoins des stratégies comparables pour traiter des questions juridiques complexes. En outre, plusieurs chapitres montrent comment, en plus de la production normative et de la résolution des différends étatiques, la panoplie croissante de différents types d'instruments non étatiques et de résolution non étatique des différends devient de plus en plus centrale dans la sphère juridique. Cet ouvrage est un ajout essentiel à la bibliothèque de tout universitaire souhaitant se tenir au courant des principales tendances du droit contemporain. Il couvre un vaste domaine de sujets traités d'un point de vue comparatif et représente l'état actuel du droit dans chaque domaine.
Download or read book Responsabilit Sociale Partage written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These reflections on the sharing of social responsibilities as proposed by the Council of Europe pave the way for asserting concepts and forms of behaviour that, while acknowledging differences in status and authority, can nevertheless promote multiple opportunities for deliberation, joint decision making, co-operation and reciprocity between stakeholders. If we are to avoid conflict and destruction in the face of growing interdependence, it is essential to reformulate current social choices, ensuring that social, intergenerational and environmental justice lie at their very heart. This volume, like the previous one on the same theme, calls us to take action by once again heeding a key social function: when making choices and decisions, taking into consideration the expectations and preferences of the different players and citizens, and in so doing to promote transparency. Failure to exercise this function will destroy our human, natural and knowledge - and solidarity-base
Download or read book Bibliographie Mensuelle written by United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland) and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La responsabilit des entreprises multinationales pour les violations des droits de l homme en Afrique written by Christelle Belporo and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La question de la responsabilité des entreprises multinationales pour les violations des droits de l'homme est d'une actualité brûlante. Alors qu'à travers le monde les scandales se multiplient, sur le continent africain, des voix s'élèvent pour dénoncer les nombreuses violations des droits internationalement protégés. Cet ouvrage évalue les réponses offertes par le droit pour l'encadrement de la responsabilité juridique des entreprises multinationales à l'aune des instruments internationaux et africains.
Download or read book Annuaire de la Convention Europ enne Des Droits de L homme written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Legal Europe Will We Trust in It written by Gavin Barrett and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this Liber Amicorum, around 50 contributors from the legal and judicial professions, from academia and from politics pay tribute to Dr Wolfgang Heusel, the Director of the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier from 2000 to 2020. The contributions provide a thorough analysis of some of the most relevant legal and political challenges faced by the European Union, including in the fields of data protection rules, artificial intelligence, the rule of law, human rights protection, institutional reform of the EU and changes in the legal and judicial professions. The book is primarily aimed at postgraduate students, legal practitioners and scholars interested in EU legal matters.
