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Human rights issues in the central core values of corporate sustainability principles : evidence from voluntary corporate disclosure

Caminis, Despoina; Pekka-Economou, Victoria - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 72 (2022) 3/4, pp. 64-77

Beyond their legal obligations, corporations globally are considering human rights issues in their management policies and practices for their responsible business conduct regarding social sustainability. This rationale applies to corporate responsibility, in which corporations are active...

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‘Re-Righting Business’ : John Ruggie and the Struggle to Develop International Human Rights Standards for Transnational Firms

Aaronson, Susan Ariel - 2015

As the major players in globalization, firms often operate in states where human rights may not be respected. Without direct intent, firms may be complicit in human rights violations. In 2008, John Ruggie, the UN Special Representative on business and human rights, developed a framework for...

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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis

Narula, Smita - 2015

The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in … world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food production as small-scale independent food producers or … agricultural laborers. These facts and figures signal a definitive blow to efforts to reduce global hunger and lift the world …

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Human Rights in the Law of the World Trade Organization : The Case of the European Generalized System of Preferences

Noordhoek, Willemijn - 2013

The relationship between human rights law and international trade law has been a point of discussion for many years. An explicit reference to human rights is nowhere to be found in the WTO Agreement, but the ruling of the Appellate Body in the EC-Tariff Preferences case has made an important...

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Human Rights Criticism of the World Bank's Private Sector Development and Privatization Projects

Kinley, David; Davis, Tom - 2015

The World Bank is no stranger to criticism of its projects, especially in respect of its privatization and private … commissioned by the World Bank. The brief was to provide an account of the major criticisms directed at the World Bank's private …

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Human Rights, Environmental Justice, and the North-South Divide

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2016

South has been compromised by the neoliberal economic reforms imposed by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank …

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The World Bank, the IMF, and Human Rights

Bradlow, Daniel - 2010

This paper explores the type of human rights obligations of the World Bank and the IMF. It argues that their human … World Bank and the IMF. The paper concludes that these organizations need to develop a coherent and explicit human rights …

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The Cost of Complying with Human Rights Treaties : The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Basic Immunization

Gauri, Varun - 2015

The determinants of compliance with human rights treaties likely vary according to the right in question, yet heterogeneity in the pathways through which ratification affects various human rights outcomes has received limited attention. This paper first develops an account of treaty compliance...

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The Forgotten Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions in Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : Seeking the Roots of the Right in International Law

Hohmann, Jessie M. - 2020

This paper analyses the forgotten right to continuous improvement of living conditions in ICESCR Art 11(1), drawing on: the travaux préparatoires; the broader context of Twentieth Century international law; and the work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It argues that we...

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With Power Comes Responsiblity : Human Rights and Corporate Accountability

Nolan, Justine - 2010

The influence of transnational corporations (TNCs) on the economic and political life of most countries – and on economic and political relations in general – has increased greatly in recent decades. Today, the economic capacities of transnational corporations go far beyond the economic...

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