Full Description
Corporate businesses are expanding nationally and globally. Given this proliferation, this edited volume investigates and finds the inseparable nexus between businesses, human rights, and sustainable development. It will be a handy and useful resource book for corporate policymakers, government officials, legislators, academics, researchers, libraries, lawyers, judges, human rights specialists/activists, and anyone interested in the interaction between business, human rights, and sustainable development.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
Socially Responsible Corporate Conducts
1 Business, Human Rights, and Sustainable Development: An Introduction
Md Jahid Hosain Bhuiyan and M Rafiqul Islam
2 Corporate Commitment to Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Stefan Zagelmeyer
3 Business, Socio-economic Rights, Responsibilities, and Global Inequalities
Jernej Letnar Černič
4 Business, Human Rights and Plastic Pollution
Sara L Seck and Victoria Kongats
5 The Application of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Conflict Areas: Corporate Responsibilities, Responses, and Non-responses in the Context of the Ukraine War
Peter Muchlinski
6 Corporate Responsibility to Redress Human Rights Violations Related to the Environment: The Long Road towards Ever-Growing Call for Legal Regulation and Accountability
Paolo Galizzi
Part 2
Interaction of Human Rights with Trade, Investment, and Finance
7 The World Trading System, Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Ernst Ulrich Petersmann
8 Foreign Direct Investment and Responsibility of Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Violations
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
9 Bilateral Development Finance Institutions, Business and Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations
Gamze Erdem Türkelli
Part 3
Business and Human Rights: Challenges for Implementation
10 Human Rights Violations in Global Supply Chains: Acknowledging and Addressing Systemic Abuses
Olga Martin-Ortega
11 Transparency: See and Be Seen
Robert Stumberg
12 Transitional Justice Responses to Corporate Abuse
Nelson Camilo Sanchez
13 Effective and Meaningful Dialogue through Company Grievance Mechanisms: Promoting Community Engagement, Sustainable Development and Conflict Prevention
Lisa J. Laplante
14 Tort Law and the Scope of the Corporate Duty of Care in the Context of Business and Human Rights
Jindan-Karena Mann
15 Lopsided Distribution of covid Vaccines under Stringent Pharmaceutical Patent Law and Its Marginalising Effects on the Global South: A Reformist Human Rights Approach
Khorsed Zaman and M Rafiqul Islam
16 Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage - Reconciling Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and Indigenous Worldviews through Proactive Approaches and Engagement
Rosa Ballardini, Iiris Tuominen and Dino Girardi
17 Business and Human Rights in the Data Economy
Mariam Shakil, Isabel Ebert and Florian Wettstein
18 Aligning Business Efforts to Combat Corruption and Respect Human Rights
David Hess
Index
