Human rights, corporate complicity and disinvestment / edited by Gro Nystuen, Andreas Follesdal and Ola Mestad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nystuen, Gro, editor.

Føllesdal, Andreas, editor.

Mestad, Ola, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social responsibility of business.

Human rights--Economic aspects.

Human rights.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Human Rights, Corporate Complicity & Disinvestment

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can businesses and their shareholders avoid moral and legal complicity in human rights violations? This central and contemporary issue in the field of ethics, politics and law is of concern to intergovernmental organizations such as the UN and to many NGOs, as well as investors and employees. In this volume legal scholars and political philosophers identify and address the intertwined issues of moral and legal complicity in human rights violations by companies and those who invest in them. By describing the legal aspects of human rights violations in the corporate sphere, addressing the complicity of companies with regard to such norms and exploring the influence of investors, the book provides a thorough introduction to corporate social responsibility. Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment will set the research agenda on socially responsible investment for years to come.

Contents:

Disinvestment on the basis of corporate contribution to human rights violations : the case of the Norwegian Government Pension / Fund Gro Nystuen

Laws, standards, or voluntary guidelines / Simon Chesterman

Responsibility beyond the law? / Christopher Kutz

Attribution of responsibility of listed companies / Ola Mestad

Responsibility for human rights violations, acts or omissions, within the 'sphere of influence' of companies / Urs Gasser

Human rights investment filters : a defense / Andreas Follesdal

Moral responsibilities of shareholders : a conceptual map / Helene Ingierd and Henrik Syse

Sovereign-wealth funds and (un)ethical investment : using 'due diligence' to avoid contributing to human rights violations committed by companies in the investment portfolio / Bruno Demeyere

Corporations and criminal complicity / Andrew Clapham.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-15308-0

1-107-22237-0

1-283-34262-6

1-139-16066-4

9786613342621

1-139-16166-0

1-139-15961-5

1-139-15609-8

1-139-15785-X

1-139-00329-1

OCLC:

769342286