Children''s Rights and Business - Governing Obligations and Responsibility

A comprehensive legal inquiry into children's rights and business, drawing on insights from various disciplines, enriched by in-depth case studies.

List of contents

Part I: 1. Children's rights obligations and business; Part II. Case Illustrations: A Brief Introduction: 2. Children's rights in supply chains; 3. Children's rights in investment projects; Part III: 4. A polycentric governance model of children's rights and business; 5. Polycentric governance of responsibility; 6. Children's rights, multiple duty-bearers and polycentric governance: summary conclusions.

About the author

Gamze Erdem Türkelli is a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the Law and Development Research Group, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. She works on human rights and development within international legal debates, with a particular focus on children's rights, business and human rights, hybrid actors and development financing. She holds degrees in Political Science, International Relations (Boğaziçi University, B.A.; Yale University, Connecticut M.A. as a Fulbright Fellow) and Law (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, Ph.D.).

Summary

This book is a comprehensive legal inquiry into children's rights and business, situating children and their rights within the business and human rights arena, and evaluating the promise of existing regulatory frameworks through the lens of in-depth case illustrations on children in supply chains and children in investment projects.

Additional text

'Business greatly impacts on children's Iives. Nevertheless, while business and human rights matters have been discussed for four decades, children's rights only entered this scene rather recently. In her lucid book, Gamze Erdem Turkelli appealingly unlocks the developments involved, both in theory and in practice. Cases from Uzbekistan, the DRC and Uganda finely illustrate child rights aspects that have come up in the cotton sector, mineral extraction, and infrastructure projects.' Karin Arts, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Product details

• Authors: Gamze Erdem Turkelli, Gamze (Universiteit Antwerpen Erdem Turkelli, Gamze Erdem Türkelli
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781108484169
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48416-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / Banking, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Business & Financial, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Relations, International Law, Political science & theory, financial law, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Financial law: general, International Organisations & Institutions, Banking law