Human Rights Obligations of Business (eBook, PDF)

Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect?
Redaktion: Deva, Surya

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, the UN Human Rights Council has approved the 'Respect, Protect, and Remedy' Framework and endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. These developments have been welcomed widely, but do they adequately address the challenges concerning the human rights obligations of business? This volume of essays engages critically with these important developments. The chapters revolve around four key issues: the process and methodology adopted in arriving at these documents; the source and justification of corporate human rights obligations; the nature and extent of such obligations; and the implementation and enforcement thereof. In addition to highlighting several critical deficits in these documents, the contributing authors also outline a vision for the twenty-first century in which companies have obligations to society that go beyond the responsibility to respect human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107596801
• Artikelnr.: 40070151

Inhaltsangabe

1. The human rights obligations of business: a critical framework for the
future Surya Deva and David Bilchitz; Part I. Process and Methodology: 2.
Navigating from 'trainwreck' to being 'welcomed': negotiation strategies
and argumentative patterns in the development of the UN Framework Karin
Buhmann; 3. The 'Ruggie process': from legal obligations to corporate
social responsibility? Carlos Lopez; 4. Treating human rights lightly: a
critique of the consensus rhetoric and the language employed by the Guiding
Principles Surya Deva; Part II. Source and Justification of Corporate
Obligations: 5. A chasm between 'is' and 'ought'? A critique of the
normative foundations of the SRSG's Framework and the Guiding Principles
David Bilchitz; 6. The corporate responsibility to respect human rights:
soft law or not law? Justine Nolan; 7. Putting the business and human
rights agenda in context: lessons from the anti-corruption sphere Anita
Ramasastry; Part III. Nature and Extent of Corporate Obligations: 8.
Business, human rights and gender: a legal approach to external and
internal considerations Bonita Meyersfeld; 9. Due diligence and complicity:
a relationship in need of clarification Sabine Michalowski; 10. Making
noise about silent complicity: the moral inconsistency of the 'Protect,
Respect and Remedy' Framework Florian Wettstein; Part IV. Implementation
and Enforcement: 11. When human rights 'responsibilities' become 'duties':
the extra-territorial obligations of states that bind corporations Daniel
Augenstein and David Kinley; 12. Will transnational private regulation
close the governance gap? Nicola Jägers; 13. An analysis and practical
application of the Guiding Principles on providing remedies with special
reference to case studies related to oil companies Tineke Lambooy,
Aikaterini Argyrou and Mary Varner; 14. Access to remedy: the United
Kingdom experience of MNC tort litigation for human rights violations
Richard Meeran.