LEADER 03480oam 2200553I 450 001 9910155117703321 005 20240505170830.0 010 $a1-315-62014-6 010 $a1-317-21605-9 010 $a1-317-21606-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315620145 035 $a(CKB)4340000000023994 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4767417 035 $a(OCoLC)967745442 035 $a(BIP)56921689 035 $a(BIP)54581769 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000023994 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCorporate human rights violations $eglobal prospects for legal action /$fStefanie Khoury and David Whyte 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (193 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aRipe series in global political economy 311 08$a1-138-65955-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. From economic cannibalism to corporate human rights liabilities -- 2. Different shades of voluntarism -- 3. A manufactured consensus -- 4. Tort law and the struggle against corporate human rights violations -- 5. Struggles for corporate accountability in the human rights courts -- 6. 'Human' rights for profit. 330 $aThis book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s.? ? Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for understanding ?how those struggles are played out in the global sphere.  In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights violations, the book explores the development of a range of political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in how international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being shaped by global struggles against corporate power. 410 0$aRIPE series in global political economy. 606 $aCorporate governance$xLaw and legislation$xSocial aspects 606 $aSocial responisbility of business 606 $aHuman rights 615 0$aCorporate governance$xLaw and legislation$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSocial responisbility of business. 615 0$aHuman rights. 676 $a342.08/5 700 $aKhoury$b Stefanie.$0929903 701 $aWhyte$b David$f1968-$0929904 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155117703321 996 $aCorporate human rights violations$92091103 997 $aUNINA