National Action Plan On Business And Human Rights

Author : James Gomez
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9789811572753
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business and Human Rights in Asia written by James Gomez and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-02-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the State’s duty to protect human rights in Asia amidst rising concern over the human rights impact of business organisations in the region, a topic which has hitherto been understudied. It analyses a range of inter-connected issues: the advent of international standards, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the challenges inherent in the formulation of National Action Plans on business and human rights, the need for improved legislation and policies, access to remedies, and conflicts with indigenous peoples over business activities. The book also covers innovative themes such as BHR in the era of smart cities, ethical consumer behavior, and a human rights management system, which are emerging areas of enquiry in this field concluding with a range of critical issues to be addressed, including the need for an assessment of COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on BHR in Asia and beyond. This book is part of Asia Centre’s exploration of the nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant obstacles in protecting human rights and showcases the progress achieved and the ongoing challenges across Asia.

Author : Komnas HAM
Publisher : Komnas HAM
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights written by Komnas HAM and published by Komnas HAM. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparing a National Action Plan (NAP) on Business and Human Rights can be considered as a socially engineered instrument in the context of developing a corridor in which to frame business relations with the universal standard of human rights. In addition, the NAP on Business and Human Rights can be placed as a strategy for the policies developed by a country to protect human rights from the impact of corporate operations that are harmful or detrimental according to the UN Guiding Principles.

Author : César Rodriguez-Garavito
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107175291
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business and Human Rights written by César Rodriguez-Garavito and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global governance approaches to business and human rights, with an emphasis on the UN Guiding Principles.

Author : Oyeniyi Abe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000588211
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions written by Oyeniyi Abe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the contemporary and contentious question of the critical connections between business and human rights, and the implementation of socially responsible norms in developing countries, with particular reference to Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Business enterprises and transnational corporate actors operate in a complex global environment, especially when operating in high risks sectors such as oil and gas, mining, construction, banking, and health care amongst others. Understanding human rights responsibilities, impacts, and socially responsible behaviour for companies is therefore an essential component of corporate risk management in our current world. The release of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, an instrument consisting of 31 principles on this issue, has further underscored the emergence of a rapidly developing set of international law norms on human rights responsibilities of businesses and transnational corporations. It has also shaped the discourse on corporate accountability for human rights. In addition to minimizing litigation, financial and reputational risks, understanding and demonstrating corporate respect for human rights is vital to building a culture of trust and integrity amongst local communities, investors, and shareholders. While Africa has been at the receiving end of deleterious activities of corporate actors, it has failed to address corporate impunity and human rights violations by non-state actors. Questions abound revolving around the underpinnings of a corporate responsibility to respect human rights, that is, how non-western and particularly African conceptions of respect may help develop a beyond do no net harm approach to respect; policy discourses on human rights due diligence, human rights impact assessment; mandating corporate respect for human rights in both domestic and international law. This book examines, clarifies, and unpacks the guiding principles of a rights-based approach to development and social inclusion. It offers an excellent exposition of regulatory capacity, institutional efficacy, and democratic legitimacy of governance institutions that shape development including a comprehensive analysis of how states are shaping business and human rights discourses locally to develop a critical understanding of identified issues by exploring the latest theories through comparative lenses.

Author : Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Publisher : United Nations Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780975244258
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Translated written by Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this publication is to contribute to [the] process of clarification by explaining universally recognised human rights in a way that makes sense to business. The publication also aims to illustrate, through the use of case studies and actions, how human rights are relevant in a corporate context and how human rights issues can be managed."--Introduction, p. vii.

Author : Azadeh Chalabi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192555596
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Human Rights Action Planning written by Azadeh Chalabi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date. At the theoretical level, by advancing a novel general theory of human rights planning, it offers an alternative to the traditional state-centric model of planning. This new theory contains four sub-theories: contextual, substantive, procedural, and analytical ones. At the doctrinal level, by conducting a textual analysis of core human rights conventions, it reveals the scope and nature of the states' obligation to adopt a plan of action for implementing human rights. At the empirical level, a cross-case analysis of national human rights action plans of 53 countries is conducted exploring the major problems of these plans in different phases of planning and uncovering the underlying causes of these problems. At the practical level, this volume sets out how these plans should be developed and implemented, how they can be best monitored by international human rights bodies, and how to maximize their effectiveness. With discussions bridging human rights theory and practice and development discourse, this book will be a useful resource for a wide range of audiences, from academics of different disciplines (law, human rights, social policy, political science, political philosophy, legal philosophy, development studies, planning studies, socio-legal studies) to governments, human rights practitioners, and the UN human rights bodies.

Author : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789211542011
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication contains the 'Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework', which were developed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. The Special Representative annexed the Guiding Principles to his final report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/17/31), which also includes an introduction to the Guiding Principles and an overview of the process that led to their development. The Human Rights Council endorsed the Guiding Principles in its resolution 17/4 of 16 June 2011."--P. iv.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yannick Poullie
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3957103991
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Action Plans in the Global Governance of Business and Human Rights written by Yannick Poullie and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diese Arbeit analysiert Nationale Aktionspläne für Wirtschaft und Menschenrechte als bedeutsamen Schritt in der Entwicklung unternehmerischer Menschenrechtsverantwortung. Angeleitet vom diskursiven Institutionalismus und gerahmt von einer Interpretation des Politikfeldes als Wettbewerb konkurrierender Ideen wird am Beispiel von Schweden und Deutschland detailliert der Einfluss staatlicher und nichtstaatlicher Akteure im Politikprozess beleuchtet und aufgezeigt, unter welchen Bedingungen unternehmerische Menschenrechtsverantwortung größere Verbindlichkeit gewinnt. Die Studie leistet theoretisch und empirisch einen innovativen Beitrag zur politikwissenschaftlichen Menschenrechtsforschung.

Author : Juan José Álvarez Rubio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351979159
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Business written by Juan José Álvarez Rubio and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economic power that multinational companies wield in the global economy. At the same time, it appears that it is difficult to regulate the activities of multinational companies in such a way that they conform to international human, labour and environmental rights standards. This has partially to do with the organization of companies into groups of separate legal persons, incorporated in different states, as well as with the complexity of the corporate supply chain. Absent a business and human rights treaty, a more coherent legal and policy approach is required. Faced with the challenge of how to effectively access the right to remedy in the European Union for human rights abuses committed by EU companies in non-EU states, a diverse research consortium of academic and legal institutions was formed. The consortium, coordinated by the Globernance Institute for Democratic Governance, became the recipient of a 2013 Civil Justice Action Grant from the European Commission Directorate General for Justice. A mandate was thus issued for research, training and dissemination so as to bring visibility to the challenge posed and moreover, to provide some solutions for the removal of barriers to judicial and non-judicial remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses in non-EU states. The project commenced in September 2014 and over the course of two years the consortium conducted research along four specific lines in parallel with various training sessions across EU Member States. The research conducted focused primarily on judicial remedies, both jurisdictional barriers and applicable law barriers; non-judicial remedies, both to company-based grievance. The results of this research endeavour make up the content of this report whose aim is to provide a scholarly foundation for policy proposals by identifying specific challenges relevant to access to justice in the European Union and to provide recommendations on how to remove legal and practical barriers so as to provide access to remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses in non-EU states.