Corporate Human Rights Violations - Khoury, Stefanie

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Auteur(s) : Khoury, Stefanie - Whyte, David

Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/12/2016

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 222

Expédition : 484

Dimensions : 24.0 x 16.1 x 1.7

ISBN : 9781138659551

Résumé :

This book puts the current demand for new legal mechanisms to hold corporations accountable for violations of human rights in its historical, political and legal context. In so doing, it deepens our understanding of the challenges facing international human rights law in addressing corporate violations of human rights. Raising possibilities for destabilising the power of the corporation and demanding accountability not only from corporations but also from the governments that grant corporations rights to act, this book will be of great use to scholars engaged in legal and human rights studies, sociology, criminology, politics, IR, conflict resolution, anthropology and history.

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Introduction: The Rarefied Politics of Global Legal Struggles

Introduction: Corporate Human Rights Violations

Human Rights and Corporate Accountability

A Mirror Image?

The Rarefied Politics of Global Consent

Global Social Ordering

Counter-hegemony and Resistance?

The Structure of the Book

Chapter One: From Economic Cannibalism to Corporate Human Rights Liabilities

Introduction

Corporations, Human Rights and the UN

Corporations as Bearers of Rights

Corporations as Political Institutions

The Draft Norms

Lobbying the Norms

The NGO Lobby

Conclusion: Untangling the Roots of UN Policy

Chapter Two: Different Shades of Voluntarism

Introduction

The Global Compact: `Support Group? or `Good Old Boys Club??

An American in the Court of King Kofi

The Continuation of a Business-Friendly Agenda?

The Guiding Principles

A Fake Consensus

Conclusion

Chapter Three: A Manufactured Consent

Introduction

Evaluating the Role of the OECD Guidelines

Complaints Taken by NGOs

Mutual Agreement?

No Enforcement

Corporate Structural Advantage

Conclusion

Chapter Four: Tort Law and the Struggle Against Corporate Human Rights Violations

Introduction

The Civil Justice System and Corporate Accountability

Alien Tort Claims Act 1789

The Business Lobby Celebrates

European Transnational Tort Cases

Transnational Jurisdiction and the Imperial Court

Transnational Struggle?

Conclusion: Nearly Absolute Non-Accountability

Chapter Five: Struggles for Corporate Accountability in the Human Rights Courts

Introduction

Positive and Negative Obligations

Positive Obligations into the Private Sphere

The Horizontal Effect in the European System

The Horizontal Effect in the Inter-American System

NGOs and the Struggle for Recognition

Struggles for Collective Rights

Conclusion

Chapter Six: `Human? Rights for Profit

Introduction

The Corporate Victim

Corporate Rights in Europe

Corporate Rights at the Inter-American Court

Corporate Law Trumps Human Rights Law

Political Struggles for Corporate Rights

Conclusion: New Mechanisms of Accountability for Corporate Human Rights Violations?

Making Struggles Around Human Rights Visible

Moving Towards a Treaty?

A Peoples? Tribunal?