Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment

Herausgeber: Follesdal, Andreas; Nystuen, Gro; Mestad, Ola

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines companies' and investors' moral and legal complicity in human rights violations in the context of globalisation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781107012851
• ISBN-10: 1107012856
• Artikelnr.: 33353816

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Gro Nystuen, Andreas Follesdal and Ola Mestad; 2.
Disinvestment on the basis of corporate contribution to human rights
violations - the case of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Gro Nystuen;
3. Laws, standards, or voluntary guidelines? Simon Chesterman; 4.
Responsibility beyond the law? Christopher Kutz; 5. Attribution of
responsibility of listed companies Ola Mestad; 6. Responsibility for human
rights violations, acts or omissions, within the 'sphere of influence' of
companies Urs Gasser; 7. Human rights investment filters - a defense
Andreas Follesdal; 8. The moral responsibilities of shareholders - a
conceptual map Helene Ingierd and Henrik Syse; 9. Sovereign-wealth funds
and (un)ethical investment: using 'due diligence' to avoid contributing to
human rights violations committed by companies in the investment portfolio
Bruno Demeyere; 10. Corporations and criminal complicity Andrew Clapham.