RT Article
T1 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Human Rights Law
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 87
IS 2
SP 385
OP 400
A1 McCorquodale, Robert
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785634747
AB The United Nations Special Representative on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights, John Ruggie, has adopted a new framework for considering this issue within the international legal system. This article examines this framework in terms of its coherence, its consistency with international human rights law and how it can be ‘operationalized’ (which is required by the United Nations). In regard to the states legal obligation to protect human rights, it is considered whether this obligation is broader and deeper than is envisaged in the framework, especially if it can include the extra-territorial activities of corporations. The corporate responsibility to respect human rights is examined in terms of its conceptual and definitional problems, and the article also questions whether there will be sufficient legal remedies available to victims under the framework.
K1 John Ruggie
K1 International Law
K1 Human Rights
K1 Extraterritoriality
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
DO 10.1007/s10551-009-0296-5