Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment
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Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
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Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment

About this book

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.

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Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781107012851
eBook ISBN
9781139154062

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment
  3. Tiltle
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Note on the contributors
  7. Referenced case law
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Disinvestment on the basis of corporate contribution to human rights violations: the case of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund
  11. 3 Laws, standards or voluntary guidelines?
  12. 4 Responsibility beyond the law?
  13. 5 Attribution of responsibility to listed companies
  14. 6 Responsibility for human rights violations, acts or omissions, within the ‘sphere of influence’ of companies
  15. 7 Human rights investment filters: a defence
  16. 8 The moral responsibilities of shareholders: a conceptual map
  17. 9 Sovereign wealth funds and (un)ethical investment: using ‘due diligence’ to avoid contributing to human rights violations committed by companies in the investment portfolio
  18. 10 Corporations and criminal complicity
  19. Appendices
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index

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