Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations

Name: Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations
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ISBN: 9781402023606

ISBN-10: 140202360X

ISBN-13: 9781402023606

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tom Campbell, Seumas Miller

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All students and advocates of human rights will be interested in this concerted exploration of the human rights moral obligations that fall, not directly on states, but on private and public organisations. Such an approach to human rights opens up the possibility of holding corporations and bureaucracies to account for human rights violations even when they have acted in accordance with the law. This interdisciplinary and international project brings together eminent philosophers, lawyers, social scientists and practitioners to articulate theoretically and develop in practical contexts the moral implications of human rights for non-state actors.nbsp;What emerges from the book as a whole is…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 7/27/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 254
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.662



Introduction




Moral dimensions of human rights




Human rights : whose duties?




Welfare rights as human rights




Human rights, corporate responsibility and the new accountability




International business regulation : an ethical discourse in the making?




Human rights, globalisation and the modern stakeholder corporation




Business and human rights




Autonomy as a central human right and its implications for the moral responsibilities of corporations




Human rights and the institution of the police




Human rights in correctional organisations




Human rights, the moral vacuum of modern organisations, and administrative evil




Humanity, military humanism and the new moral order