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Business, Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Series: - International Studies in Human Rights, Volume: 146
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.
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.
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
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
Academics, practitioners, students, and policy makers in the fields of human rights, international law, corporate law, and governance.