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Public Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer

Public Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer

Author: Olga Martin-Ortega; Claire Methven O'Brien
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781788116305
Published In: May 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Important new policy frameworks call on governments to ensure respect for human rights by businesses and to secure a transition to sustainable consumption.

Public procurement accounts for a significant share of the global economy, and nearly 30% of government expenditure across OECD countries. But what are the obligations of the state to protect human rights when it acts as a buyer? And how can procurement be used to drive respect for human rights amongst government suppliers? This engaging book reflects on these important questions, from the dual disciplinary perspectives of public procurement and human rights.

Through legal analysis and practice-focused case studies, the expert contributors interrogate the role and potential of public procurement as a driver for responsible business conduct. Highlighting the character of public procurement as an interface for multiple normative regimes and competing policies, the book advances a compelling case for a shift to a new paradigm of sustainable procurement that embraces human rights as crucial to realising international policies such as those embodied in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Topical and thought-provoking, Public Procurement and Human Rights will be an essential read for academics and students of human rights law, public procurement law, and business and human rights, as well as practitioners in public procurement and sustainability, and government officials.

Editors’ preface

PART I INTRODUCTION

1. Public procurement and human rights: interrogating the role of the state as buyer

Olga Martin-Ortega and Claire Methven O’Brien

PART II FRAMEWORKS AND ACTORS

2. Human rights and national procurement rules in the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement

Opi Outhwaite

3. Human rights in the context of public procurements financed by the World Bank

Sope Williams-Elegbe

4. The human rights responsibilities of international organizations as procuring authorities

Deborah Russo

5. Constitutionalising public procurement through human rights: lessons from South Africa

Geo Quinot

6. Public procurement and ‘core’ human rights: a sketch of the European Union legal framework

Albert Sanchez-Graells

7. Civil liability for abuses of ILO core labour rights in European Union government supply chains: Ireland as a case study

Eamonn Conlon

8. Public procurement and human rights: current role and potential of voluntary sustainability standards

Axel Marx

PART III OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES: INSIGHTS FROM PRACTICE

9. Outsourcing and bonded labour in military and diplomatic security services

James Sinclair

10. Public procurement and human rights in the healthcare sector: the Swedish county councils’ collaborative model

Pauline Göthberg

11. Public procurement and modern slavery risks in the English adult social care sector

Caroline Emberson and Alexander Trautrims

12. Making rights effective in public procurement supply chains: lessons from the electronics sector

Björn Skorpen Claeson

13. Supply chain transparency in public procurement: lessons from the apparel sector

Robert Stumberg and Nicole Vander Meulen

PART IV CONCLUSION

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Public procurement and human rights: towards legal and policy coherence in pursuit of sustainable market economies

Claire Methven O’Brien and Olga Martin-Ortega

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