Human rights obligations of business: beyond the corporate responsibility to respect?

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 o...

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Weitere Verfasser: Deva, Surya (HerausgeberIn), Bilchitz, David ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxv, 424 pages)
ISBN:9781139568333
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139568333