Business and human rights in Southeast Asia : risk and the regulatory turn

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Business and human rights in Southeast Asia : risk and the regulatory turn

Title remainder

risk and the regulatory turn

Statement of responsibility

edited by Mahdev Mohan and Cynthia Morel

Contributor

• Mohan, Mahdev
• Morel, Cynthia

Editor

• Mohan, Mahdev
• Morel, Cynthia

Subject

• Corporate governance -- Law and legislation
• Corporate governance -- Law and legislation -- Southeast Asia
• Human rights
• Human rights -- Southeast Asia
• International business enterprises -- Law and legislation
• International business enterprises -- Law and legislation -- Southeast Asia
• Social responsibility of business
• Social responsibility of business -- Southeast Asia
• Southeast Asia
• United Nations Human Rights Council
• United Nations Human Rights Council

Language

eng

Summary

• "Today business and human rights has emerged as a distinct field within the broader corporate responsibility movement. The endorsement by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in 2011 has been welcomed as the leading global standard for corporations to respect human rights. The Guiding Principles are the culmination of a six year UN commissioned study by Harvard Universitys Professor John Ruggie, which concludes that companies should carry out human rights due diligence to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address their adverse human rights impacts. The Guiding Principles reinforce the state duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties including business; the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; and greater access by victims to effective remedy, both judicial and non-judicial. This book draws on the UN Guiding Principles to provide an overview of developments within the ASEAN region in relation to business and human rights. Bridging theory and practice, chapter authors will discuss the implications of key case-studies undertaken across the region, with a particular focus on extractive industries, migration and infrastructure projects. Topics covered include: due diligence and the role of audits; the role CSR can play in achieving sustainable socio economic development; businesses responsibilities to migrant workers; and the prevention of human rights abuses in states with weak levels of governance. The book aims to shed light on how ASEAN States currently understand and approach business and human rights challenges, and how the role played by ASEAN States may be strengthened and expanded. In doing so it clearly identifies the key themes, opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for the region in relation to business and human rights"--
• "This book draws on the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights to provide an overview of developments within the ASEAN region in relation to business and human rights. Bridging theory and practice, chapter authors will discuss the implications of key case-studies undertaken across the region. The book aims to shed light on how ASEAN States currently understand and approach business and human rights challenges, and how the role played by ASEAN States may be strengthened and expanded. In doing so it clearly identifies the key themes, opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for the region in relation to business and human rights"--

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• Routledge research in human rights law

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• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

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DLC

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non fiction

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bibliography

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Routledge research in human rights law