Transnational corporations and human rights / / edited by Olivier De Schutter

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (438 p.)
• Disciplina: 346.0662
• Soggetto topico: Human rights; International business enterprises - Law and legislation; International business enterprises - Social aspects; Social responsibility of business
• Persona (resp. second.): SchutterOlivier de
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The challenge of imposing human rights norms on corporate actors / Olivier De Schutter -- Beyond Unocal : conceptual problems in using international norms to hold transnational corporations liable under the Alien Tort Claims Act / Andrew J Wilson -- The effect of bilateral investment treaties on human rights enforcement and realization / Ryan Suda -- Competing for foreign direct investment through the creation of export processing zones : the impact on human rights / Chu Yun Juliana Nam -- The North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation : an effective compromise between harmonization of labor rights and regulatory competition? / Ana A Piquer -- Corporate codes of conduct and the human rights accountability of transnational corporations : a small piece of a larger puzzle / Fiona McLeay -- International framework agreements : a collaborative paradigm for labor relations / Lisa R Price -- The illegal exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo : a case study on corporate complicity in human rights abuses / Asimina-Manto Papaioannou -- Corporations and the International Criminal Court / Cristina Chiomenti -- The lack of enforcement in the United Nations Draft norms : benefit or disadvantage? / Jacob Gelfand -- Overt and hidden accomplices. transnational corporations' range of complicity for human rights violations / Inés Tófalo -- The promotion of human rights by selective public procurement under international trade law / Katherine Zeisel -- A role for the international finance corporation in integrating environmental and human rights standards into core project covenants : case study of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline project / Terra Eve Lawson-Remer.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This volume offers a systematic overview of the different tools through which the human rights accountability of transnational corporations may be improved. It first examines the responsibility of States in controlling transnational corporations, emphasizing both the limits imposed by the protection of the rights of investors under investment treaties and the potential of the US Alien Tort Claims Act and other similar extra-territorial legislations. It then turns to self-regulation by transnational corporations, through the use of codes of conduct or international framework agreements. It then discusses recent attempts at the global level to improve the human rights accountability of corporations by the direct imposition on corporations of obligations under international law. Finally, it considers the use of public procurement policies or of conditionalities in the lending policies of multilateral lending institutions in order to incentivize TNCs to behave ethically. Altogether, the book offers a rigorous legal analysis of these different developments and critically appraises their potential."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transnational corporations and human rights
• ISBN: 1-4725-6372-7; 1-280-81414-4; 9786610814145; 1-84731-276-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784169103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in international law (Stockholm, Sweden) ; ; v.12.