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This handbook provides an essential reference for the pivotal and dynamic field of business and human rights from an African perspective. Grounded in human rights frameworks, it presents the status quo of the prevailing fundamental and intersectional issues related to business and human rights regulation in Africa. The handbook covers topics such as land and institutional governance, corporate social responsibility, and gender issues as some of the main themes and offers practical regulatory solutions based on doctrinal, empirical, and comparative methods. Exploring the intersection of business and human rights deepens our understanding of the legal, policy, and regulatory challenges involved and clarifies how and to what extent human rights concerns are addressed in Africa, a continent often marked by human rights violations by multinational corporations. It is hoped that the solutions provided here will help address policy, regulatory, and legal developments related to business and human rights in Africa.
List of contents
Part 1: The untold stories about business and human rights.- Introduction Business and Human Rights in the Era of Anthropocene - The Much Ado About Business and Human Rights Norms and Standards?.- Part 2: Internationalisation.- Business and Human Rights, and the Progress on Developing a Legally Binding Treaty.- The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and Corporate Accountability in Africa.- Part 3: Troubled Regionalism?.- Financial Inclusion and the Challenge of Refugee Self-Reliance in East Africa.- Transitional Justice Tools and Business in Africa: A Conceptual Approach.- Bridging the financial inclusion and digital divide in Africa: Insights and reflections on business and human rights.- Natural Resource Extraction in Africa: Prospects and Constraints of the African Commission's Resolution 550 (LXXIV) as a Framework for Human Rights Accountability Standards.- Part 4: Responsibility to Protect 1 - Right to Development.- Competition law and the right to development in Africa: Reflections on AFCFTA Protocol on Competition.- Multinational Flower Companies Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia: Examining Contestation and Compromise.- Transnational Land Grabbing and the Conundrum of Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations in Africa Treating Human Rights Differently?.- State-Own-Company, Transnational Corporations, and implications on the RTD in South Africa: Transnet and Mckinsey Case Studies.- Business and Human Rights in South Africa: The Duty of the State to Realise the Right to Development.- Part 5: Responsibility to Protect 2 - Corporate Social And Environmental Responsibility.- Towards corporate social responsibility in the era of Agenda 2063 for the realisation of human rights in Africa.- Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Regulation: Eurocentrism and Unintended Consequences in Supply Chains in Africa.- Business, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa.- A Sustainable Development Framework for Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations in the Zimbabwean Mining Sector: An Integrated Approach.- Part 6: Responsibility to Protect 3 - Local Communities, Human Rights, and Natural Resources Governance.- Land-Grabbing as the New Agri-Business Venture, and the Question of Natural Resource Curse in 21st Century Africa.- Cross-cultural perspectives on Business and Human Rights: Insights from African Perspective.- Digital Colonisation in Africa: Continuities of Colonial Exploitation through Knowledge Production.- UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACTS OF LAND GRABBING AS A FORM OF AGRI-BUSINESSES IN ZIMBABWE.- Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination in the Governance of Natural Resources in Africa: Issues and Challenges on Sustainable Development in Nigeria.- Business and Human Rights: Models for the Implementation of Marginalised Communities Rights to Consultation and Consent.- Part 7: Responsibility to Protect 4 - Environment and Domestic Frameworks.- Reconciling the (irreconcilable) conflict between land redistribution and foreign investment in Africa: Lessons for South Africa from Zimbabwe.- Sino-African Oil Relations: Implications for Climate Change Law, Policy, and Action in Nigeria.- Freedom of trade and migration control in Africa: Lessons from South Africa.- Business, Waste Management and the Right to a Healthy Environment: Extending Producer Responsibility in Mauritius.- Approaches to implementing Environmental Rights in the African Development Bank funded projects.- Part 8: Responsibility to Protect in the Context of Extractive Industry.- Boosting the cybersecurity resilience of human and environmental rights defenders in Africa.- Advancing the Principles of Transnational Business Enterprises in Protecting the Human Rights of Local Communities in the Extractive Industries in Africa.- Addressing Human Rights Violations by Extractive Business in Nigeria: The Limitations of Transnational Mechanisms and International Recourses as Alternatives.- Transnational Corporations and Accountability for Environmental Harm in the African Extractive Sector: The Case for Environmental Restorative Justice.- Transnational Mining Companies and the Conundrum of Human Rights Protection in Central Africa: Towards Strengthening the Horizontal Effects of Fundamental Human Rights?.- Part 9: Gender Dimension.- Business, Human Rights, and the Need to Safeguard Women s Rights in Uganda.- Assessing Women s Role in Business and Human Rights: The Case of Nigeria s Niger Delta Hydrocarbons Resource Governance.- Part 10: Governance and Corruption.- Human rights and the international governance of unfair trade policies towards Africa.- Socio-Economic Development in Africa: Transnational Corporations on Corruption and Human Rights Violations.- Business, Corruption, and Human Rights Protection in Post-Uprising Tunisia.
About the author
Jean-Claude Ashukem is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research lies in the intersectionality of human rights and environmental protection, with a focus on Africa. He serves on the editorial board of GNOSI:
An Interdisciplinary Journal on Human Theory and Praxis.
