In recent years, a number of international and cross-sectoral initiatives have attempted to respond to the human rights impacts of corporations. Foremost among these is the United Nations’ 2008 “Protect, Respect, and Remedy” Framework and its Guiding Principles on Business and Human...

The 2011 “Arab Spring” sparked optimism that there would be profound democratic change in the Middle East, a region dominated by autocratic and oppressive regimes. The lack of rights and fundamental freedom for women in the region was one of the most egregious manifestations of these abusive...

The ‘business and human rights’ (BHR) field emerged amidst concerns during the last thirty years over the adequacy of national legal systems and institutions in addressing transnational human rights impacts of global market integration. BHR relies on transnational governance networks and...

Under Australian law the children of refugee parents executively assessed as national security risks can be indefinitely held in administrative detention without effective judicial safeguards. This article examines the international human rights law impacts of adverse security assessments...

Almost a billion people do not have access to clean and safe water. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation is increasingly being considered a fundamental human right. Corporations play an important role in the realization of the right to water. For example, they can become violators of the...

The Equator Principles experiment in forging a trinity of corporate responsibilities – financial, social and environmental – is now ten years old. By a number of measures, it has been a success. From an initial cohort of ten financial institutions, membership of the Equator Principles has...

Chapter 22 of Marie Breen-Smyth, Ashgate Companion to Political Violence (2012): Within the dominion of counter-terrorism, policy choices can be stark. One must determine in institutional terms whether the response is to be predominantly military or policing and, cutting across that boundary,...

In the long battle against corruption, the last 20 years or so has yielded a number of international legal and institutional initiatives -- most notably, the OECD Bribery Convention and the UN Convention Against Corruption; regional anti-corruption conventions (in both Africa and the Americas);...

This chapter explores pertinent international trends in decision and articulates contemporary discourse in the discrete domain of the relationship between smart technologies and human security and global justice. The fundamental aim of the chapter is to assess the rather rapidly developing...

This article presents an extensive and global survey on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the COVID-19 epidemic and a comprehensive discussion of the ethical and human rights implications of AI's deployment during the pandemic. AI applications contributed to the COVID-19...