Overview

Corporate businesses are expanding nationally and globally. Given this proliferation, this edited volume investigates and finds the inseparable nexus between businesses, human rights, and sustainable development. It 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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Author:   Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan ,  M Rafiqul Islam
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Volume:   146
Weight:   0.969kg
ISBN:  

9789004530935

ISBN 10:   9004530932
Pages:   484
Publication Date:   14 March 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 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

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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.

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