Business, Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Published on 14. March 2025
Book
Hardback
508 pages
978-90-04-53093-5 (ISBN)
Description
Corporate businesses are expanding nationally and globally. Given this proliferation, this edited book investigates and finds the inseparable nexus between businesses, human rights, and sustainable development. It comprehensively accommodates chapters on separate but interrelated aspects of this interface, providing collective cutting-edge information and critical analyses by outstanding scholars. Their intellectual contributions are invaluable to understand the role of business in protecting, preserving, and improving the human capital and natural resources for the future and fill up a void in the existing literature.
The book 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.
The book 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-53093-5 (9789004530935)
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Persons
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Ph.D., The University of Queensland, Australia, is Professor of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh. He is co-editor of International Trade Law and the WTO (Federation Press, 2013) and Human Rights after 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Reflections from the Global South (Brill| Nijhoff, 2024).
M Rafiqul Islam is Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of International Trade Law of the WTO (Oxford, 2006), National Trials of International Crimes in Bangladesh: Transitional Justice as Reflected in Judgments (Brill| Nijhoff, 2019), among others.
M Rafiqul Islam is Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of International Trade Law of the WTO (Oxford, 2006), National Trials of International Crimes in Bangladesh: Transitional Justice as Reflected in Judgments (Brill| Nijhoff, 2019), among others.
Content
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? ??C?erni?c??????
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? ?T?ue?rkelli??????
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
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? ??C?erni?c??????
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? ?T?ue?rkelli??????
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