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Business Strategy as Human Rights Risk: the Case of Private Equity
In this article, we apply the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the private equity (PE) business model. PE firms often adopt a...
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Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program
This paper investigates necessary conditions for develo** a participatory, rightsholder-driven approach to remedy for business-related human rights...
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Holding Retail Corporations Accountable for Food Waste: A Due Diligence Framework Informed by Business and Human Rights Principles
Retail corporations orchestrate much of what happens in today’s food supply chains. From setting sky-high cosmetic standards for fresh produce to...
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Business and Human Rights Regulation After the UN Guiding Principles: Accountability, Governance, Effectiveness
Since the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011, they have diffused into...
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The Unrealized Potential of National Human Rights Institutions in Business and Human Rights Regulation: Conditions for Effective Engagement and Proposal for Reform
While National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) are widely regarded as particularly promising tools in the emerging transnational regime for the...
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The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations
Public pressure is essential for providing multinational enterprises (MNEs) with motivation to follow the standards of human rights conduct set in...
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Human Rights Violations Committed Against Human Rights Defenders Through the Use of Legal System: A Trend in Europe and Beyond
Human rights defenders (HRDs) fight for various human rights and address concerns related to corruption, employment, the environment, and other...
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Human Rights and Humanizing Business
There is a growing consensus that businesses should respect human rights, but there is lesser consensus on why they should do so. This chapter will...
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National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights: an Experimentalist Governance Analysis
National Action Plans (NAPs) on business and human rights are a growing phenomenon. Since 2011, 42 such plans have been adopted or are in-development...
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Academic Bullying and Human Rights: Is It Time to Take Them Seriously?
Notwithstanding universities’ many laudable aims, incidents of serious bullying, academic harassment and sexual harassment in academic settings are...
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Uncovering Economic Complicity: Explaining State-Led Human Rights Abuses in the Corporate Context
Today’s scholarship and policymaking on business and human rights (BHR) urges businesses to better understand their human rights responsibilities and...
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Human Rights
Chapter 6 focuses on human rights. Not a day goes by without news of human rights abuses. There is a growing awareness that company products and...
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Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights
This chapter presents a business ethics framework that can be used to determine the moral responsibility that firms have when it comes to human...
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Climate Change and Human Rights
Since 2007, climate change has officially been considered a threat to the enjoyment of human rights. Its impacts have been observed practically...
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Climate Change and Human Rights
Since 2007, climate change has officially been considered a threat to the enjoyment of human rights. Its impacts have been observed practically...
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Business and Human Rights: A Configurational View of the Antecedents of Human Rights Infringements by Emerging Market Firms
This study investigates the antecedents of human rights infringements (HRIs) by emerging market firms (EFs). We used fuzzy set qualitative...
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“Traduttore, Traditore?” Translating Human Rights into the Corporate Context
This paper critically investigates the implementation of the UN guiding principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) into the corporate setting...
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The Philosophy of Human Rights
This chapter is a response to the decades of Western skepticism and cynicism regarding the sustainability of democracy in Africa toward the end of...