Business and human rights in Southeast Asia : risk and the regulatory turn / edited by Mahdev Mohan and Cynthia Morel
- Published
- New York : Routledge, 2015.
- Physical Description
- xx, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Mohan, Mahdev and Morel, Cynthia
- Series
- Contents
- 1. Whither corporate social responsibility and the UN guiding principles on business and human rights in ASEAN? / Thomas Thomas -- 2. Business and human rights challenges in ASEAN : the role and modalities of the state / Delphia Lim and Geetanjali Mukherjee -- 3. Why gender matters for the business and human rights agenda in Southeast Asia / Kathryn Dovey -- 4. Children's rights and business : a framework to combat ICT-enabled child abuse in Southeast Asia / Philip Cook, Bindu Sharma and Chris Yeomans -- 5. Regulating social and environmental risk in ASEAN financial integration : the Xayaburi dam project in Lao PDR and Thai banks / Daniel King -- 6. Corporate sustainability and palm oil industries in Southeast Asia : a principled pragmatism / Puvan Selvanathan and Vani Sathisan -- 7. Human rights risks amidst the 'gold-rush' : Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam / Mahdev Mohan -- 8. Tigers, dragons, and elephants on the move in Myanmar : the case for responsible investment and three recommendations for Asian leaders / Mark Hodge and Salil Tripathi -- 9. The new frontier : due diligence and developing and implementing human rights audits in Southeast Asia / James Kallman -- 10. Making human rights a core business practice : the finance sector's role in the promotion and protection of human rights / Kerri-Ann O'Neill -- 11. Rule-making for rights protection in the Philippines : the judiciary's new powers for environmental regulation and access to remedy for business-related rights abuses / Bobbie Sta. Maria -- 12. The reality of remedy in mining and community relations : an anonymous case-study from Southeast Asia / Deanna Kemp and John R. Owen -- 13. Right to development : a path to securing more effective remedies? / Cynthia Morel.
- Summary
- "Today business and human rights has emerged as a distinct field within the broader corporate responsibility movement. The endorsement by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in 2011 has been welcomed as the leading global standard for corporations to respect human rights. The Guiding Principles are the culmination of a six year UN commissioned study by Harvard Universitys Professor John Ruggie, which concludes that companies should carry out human rights due diligence to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address their adverse human rights impacts. The Guiding Principles reinforce the state duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties including business; the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; and greater access by victims to effective remedy, both judicial and non-judicial. This book draws on the UN Guiding Principles to provide an overview of developments within the ASEAN region in relation to business and human rights. Bridging theory and practice, chapter authors will discuss the implications of key case-studies undertaken across the region, with a particular focus on extractive industries, migration and infrastructure projects. Topics covered include: due diligence and the role of audits; the role CSR can play in achieving sustainable socio economic development; businesses responsibilities to migrant workers; and the prevention of human rights abuses in states with weak levels of governance. The book aims to shed light on how ASEAN States currently understand and approach business and human rights challenges, and how the role played by ASEAN States may be strengthened and expanded. In doing so it clearly identifies the key themes, opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for the region in relation to business and human rights"--
"This book draws on the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights to provide an overview of developments within the ASEAN region in relation to business and human rights. Bridging theory and practice, chapter authors will discuss the implications of key case-studies undertaken across the region. The book aims to shed light on how ASEAN States currently understand and approach business and human rights challenges, and how the role played by ASEAN States may be strengthened and expanded. In doing so it clearly identifies the key themes, opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for the region in relation to business and human rights"-- - Subject(s)
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Human rights—Southeast Asia
- Social responsibility of business—Southeast Asia
- International business enterprises—Law and legislation—Southeast Asia
- Corporate governance—Law and legislation—Southeast Asia
- LAW—General
- LAW—Corporate
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Political Freedom & Security—Human Rights
- Corporate governance—Law and legislation
- Human rights
- International business enterprises—Law and legislation
- Social responsibility of business
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Menschenrecht
- Multinationales Unternehmen
- Southeast Asia
- Südostasien
- ISBN
- 9780415707459 (hardback)
0415707455 (hardback)
1315867648
9781315867649 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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