Business and human rights
- Holding US corporations and others parties accountable for human rights and environmental abuses overseas
- In recent years, several laws have been used to allow lawsuits in United States courts for human rights violations, and other harms, that occurred in other countries. Most recently, several major multinational corporations have been sued in the U.S. for human rights abuses committed around the world. EarthRights International has just published a manual directed toward non-lawyers who want to learn more about this type of litigation, and possibly participate in a lawsuit. The manual explores both legal issues and also practical issues.
Latest Additions
- Human Rights in CSR: A practical guide
- ( Global Compact , 2008)
- While human rights continue to be the primary responsibility of governments, companies can do a lot within the context of their own business to support and respect human rights. Being proactive on hum...
- State, transnational corporations and human rights
- ( United Nations High Commission for Human Rights , 2006)
- This document is an interim report of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprise.Three broad conte...
- Implementing human rights in business: Case studies
- ( UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , 2007)
- This document explores the practical application of the Global Compact’s human rights principles using case studies. It offers detailed examples of what businesses from all over the world are do...
Enabling forest communities in Ghana to participate in benefits from timber
- ( D.M. Ayine / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2008)
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In Ghana, legislation requires logging firms to commit a portion of their financial resources towards the provision of social amenities to local forest communities. Logging firms must perform this ...
- Recommendations to EU on child labour, trade relations and CSR
- ( G. Oonk / Child Rights Information Network , 2008)
- Building to a large extent on the existing consensus of the European Parliament for stronger policies and certain forms of regulation on Corporate and Social Responsibility, this policy paper provides...
- What duties and obligations human rights give rise to for corporations ?
- ( I. Kolstad / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2007)
- As the power of the corporate sector has become particularly salient, what duties the notion of universal human rights assign to corporation? This paper develops core elements of a general scheme of H...
- Status of Corporate Responsibilty in supply chains in Bangladesh
- ( International Federation for Human Rights , 2008)
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This report assess labour rights in Bangladesh's export garment industry. It notes that working conditions in export garment factories had substantially improved over the last two y...
The relationship between enterprise and human rights
- ( B. Nilles / International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity , 2008)
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Business activities are central to the well-being of national economies and the global economy at large.This paper examines the function of states in regulating the role of transnational ...
- What are the current international standards and practices regarding business and human rights?
- ( J.G. Ruggie / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2007)
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The state-based system of global governance has struggled for more than a generation to regulate the expanding reach and growing influence of transnational corporations. This paper reviews two rece...
- Principles and guidance for rights-based grievance mechanism
- ( C. Rees / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2008)
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This document provides guidance for effective grievance mechanisms in the context of corporate social responsibility. It provides a tool for companies and their local stakeholders to work out right...
