The business of human rights best practice and the UN guiding principles
"The spotlight of global scrutiny has shone particularly brightly on corporations’ adverse impacts on human rights in recent years. Corporations make up more than two-thirds of the world’s top economies today, and so rightly they are being called to account for their impacts on society and the...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2019
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- What is business and human rights?
- How this book is structured
- Business and human rights in context
- The social and economic context
- Corporate social responsibility versus business and human rights
- Background to the UN guiding principles on business and human rights
- The implications of human rights for business
- Legal implications
- Non-legal obligations and their implications
- Preventing modern slavery in corporate supply chains
- Addressing sexual harassment and discrimination in corporate culture
- Getting started : what actions should a company take?
- Developing a human rights policy
- Assessing the risks of human rights violations in the supply chain
- Human rights due diligence
- Access to remedy and grievance mechanisms
- Locating business and human rights in an organisation
- Human rights snapshots from different sectors
- Apparel industry
- Fast moving consumer goods industry
- Electronics industry
- Banking and finance industry
- Conclusion
- Index.
