Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations - Humanizing Business

"Despite the continuous addition of regulatory initiatives concerning corporate human rights responsibilities, what we witness more often than not is a situation of corporate impunity for human rights abuses. The Bhopal gas leak - examined as a site of human rights violations rather than as a mass tort or an environmental tragedy - illustrates that the regulatory challenges that the victims experienced in 1984 have not been overcome so far. This book grapples with and offers solutions to three major regulatory challenges to obligating companies to comply with human rights norms whilst doing business, and asks; why companies should adhere to human rights, what these responsibilities are, and how to ensure that companies comply with their responsibilities.Building on literature in the fields of law, human rights, business ethics, management, regulation and philosophy, this book proposes a new 'integrated theory of regulation' to overcome inadequacies of the existing regulatory framework that seeks to humanize business"--

Product details

• Authors: Surya Deva, Deva Surya
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2013
• EAN: 9780415715270
• ISBN: 978-0-415-71527-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Human Rights, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, LAW / General, Social & political philosophy, International business, social and political philosophy, Sales & marketing, Jurisprudence & general issues, Human rights, civil rights, Company law, Sales and marketing, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Jurisprudence and general issues