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Corporate Power and Human Rights

Corporate Power and Human Rights

Author: Manette Kaisershot; Nicholas Connolly
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138391772

Published In: January 2019
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781138655027

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There is ample evidence about the negative effects business activity of all types can have on the provision of human rights. Equally, there can be little doubt economic development, usually driven through business activity and trade, is necessary for any state to provide the institutions and infrastructure necessary to secure and provide human rights for their citizens. The United Nations and businesses recognise this tension and are collaborating to effect change in business behaviours through voluntary initiatives such as the Global Compact and John Ruggie’s Guiding Principles. Yet voluntary approaches are evidently failing to prevent human rights violations and there are few alternatives in law for affected communities to seek justice. This book seeks to robustly challenge the current status quo of business approaches to human rights in order to develop meaningful alternatives in an attempt to breech the gap between the realities of business and human rights and its discourse. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.

1. Introduction: Corporate power and human rights

Nicholas Connolly and Manette Kaisershot

2. Corporate human rights commitments and the psychology of business acceptance of human rights duties: a multi-industry analysis

Kendyl Salcito, Chris Wielga and Burton H. Singer

3. Extreme energy, ‘fracking’ and human rights: a new field for human rights impact assessments?

Damien Short, Jessica Elliot, Kadin Norder, Edward Lloyd-Davies and Joanna Morley

4. ‘From naming and shaming to knowing and showing’: human rights and the power of corporate practice

Christian Scheper

5. Global production, CSR and human rights: the courts of public opinion and the social licence to operate

Sally Wheeler

6. These are financial times: a human rights perspective on the UK financial services sector

Manette Kaisershot and Samuel Prout