Business and human rights / edited by Wesley Cragg, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada.

"The chapters in this volume with two exceptions originated from a workshop organized by the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN) held in April 2010"--Page viii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Business and human rights : a principle and value-based analysis / Wesley Cragg -- Corporate social responsibility : beyond the business case to human rights / Tom Campbell -- The limits of corporate human rights obligations and the rights of for-profit corporations / John Douglas Bishop -- Silence as complicity : elements of a corporate duty to speak out against the violation of human rights / Florian Wettstein -- The case for leverage-based corporate human rights responsibility / Stepan Wood -- Human rights and international trade : normative underpinnings / Alistair M. Macleod -- Coordinating corporate governance and corporate social responsibility / Pitman B. Potter -- Challenges to secure human rights through voluntary standards in the textile and clothing industry / Brigitte Hamm -- Mining, human rights and the socially responsible investment industry : considering community opposition to shareholder resolutions and implications of collaboration / Catherine Coumans -- To ban or not to ban : direct-to-consumer advertising and human rights analysis / Alex Wellington -- Business and human rights : reflections and observations / Charles Sampford.

Topics discussed include the debates leading to the creation of the ISO 26000 standard and the United Nations human rights framework for business entities, as well as the nature and limits of the human rights responsibilities of business, the roles and responsibilities of international trade bodies like the World Trade Organization in protecting human rights, and the implications of the current debate for international trade agreements and trade with China. The contributors also explore the effectiveness of voluntary human rights standards in the textile and clothing trade, mining, advertising and the pharmaceutical industries.

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