Corporate businesses are expanding nationally and globally. Given this proliferation, this edited volume investigates and finds the inseparable nexus between businesses, human rights, and sustainable development. It will be a handy and useful resource book for corporate policymakers, government officials, legislators, academics, researchers, libraries, lawyers, judges, human rights specialists/activists, and anyone interested in the interaction between business, human rights, and sustainable development.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
Socially Responsible Corporate Conducts
1Business, Human Rights, and Sustainable Development: An Introduction
Md Jahid Hosain Bhuiyan and M Rafiqul Islam
2Corporate Commitment to Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Stefan Zagelmeyer
3Business, Socio-economic Rights, Responsibilities, and Global Inequalities
Jernej Letnar erni
4Business, Human Rights and Plastic Pollution
Sara L Seck and Victoria Kongats
5The Application of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
in Conflict Areas: Corporate Responsibilities, Responses, and Non-responses
in the Context of the Ukraine War
Peter Muchlinski
6Corporate Responsibility to Redress Human Rights Violations Related to the
Environment: The Long Road towards Ever-Growing Call for Legal Regulation and
Accountability
Paolo Galizzi
Part 2
Interaction of Human Rights with Trade, Investment, and Finance
7The World Trading System, Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Ernst Ulrich Petersmann
8Foreign Direct Investment and Responsibility of Multinational Corporations
for Human Rights Violations
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
9Bilateral Development Finance Institutions, Business and Extraterritorial
Human Rights Obligations
Gamze Erdem Türkelli
Part 3
Business and Human Rights: Challenges for Implementation
10Human Rights Violations in Global Supply Chains: Acknowledging and
Addressing Systemic Abuses
Olga Martin-Ortega
11Transparency: See and Be Seen
Robert Stumberg
12Transitional Justice Responses to Corporate Abuse
Nelson Camilo Sanchez
13Effective and Meaningful Dialogue through Company Grievance Mechanisms:
Promoting Community Engagement, Sustainable Development and Conflict
Prevention
Lisa J. Laplante
14Tort Law and the Scope of the Corporate Duty of Care in the Context of
Business and Human Rights
Jindan-Karena Mann
15Lopsided Distribution of covid Vaccines under Stringent Pharmaceutical
Patent Law and Its Marginalising Effects on the Global South: A Reformist
Human Rights Approach
Khorsed Zaman and M Rafiqul Islam
16Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage Reconciling Intellectual Property
Rights, Human Rights and Indigenous Worldviews through Proactive Approaches
and Engagement
Rosa Ballardini, Iiris Tuominen and Dino Girardi
17Business and Human Rights in the Data Economy
Mariam Shakil, Isabel Ebert and Florian Wettstein
18Aligning Business Efforts to Combat Corruption and Respect Human Rights
David Hess
Index
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Ph.D., The University of Queensland, Australia, is Professor of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh. He is co-editor of International Trade Law and the WTO (Federation Press, 2013) and Human Rights after 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Reflections from the Global South (Brill| Nijhoff, 2024).
M Rafiqul Islam is Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of International Trade Law of the WTO (Oxford, 2006), National Trials of International Crimes in Bangladesh: Transitional Justice as Reflected in Judgments (Brill| Nijhoff, 2019), among others.
