Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs
Author: Simon Baughen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015-12-18
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0857934767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe effects of globalisation, together with the increase in foreign investment and resource development within the developing world, have created a context for human rights abuses by States in which transnational corporations are complicit. This timely book considers how these ‘governance gaps’, as identified by Professor John Ruggie, may be closed. Simon Baughen examines the status of corporations under international law, the civil liability of corporations for their participation in international crimes and self-regulation through voluntary codes of conduct, such as the 2011 UN Guiding Principles.