Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Mares: The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Foundations and Implementation

Radu Mares (Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law) has published The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Foundations and Implementation (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2011). Contents include:
  • Radu Mares, Business and Human Rights After Ruggie: Foundations, the Art of Simplification and the Imperative of Cumulative Progress
  • John H. Knox, The Ruggie Rules: Applying Human Rights Law to Corporations
  • Karin Buhmann, The Development of the ‘UN Framework’: A Pragmatic Process Towards a Pragmatic Output
  • Fiona Haines, Kate Macdonald & Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Contextualising the Business Responsibility to Respect: How Much Is Lost in Translation?
  • Sune Skadegaard Thorsen & Signe Andreasen, Remodelling Responsible Supply Chain Management: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights in Supply Chain Relationships
  • Karin Lukas, Human Rights in the Supply Chain: Influence and Accountability
  • Radu Mares, Responsibility to Respect: Why the Core Company Should Act When Affiliates Infringe Human Rights
  • Mary Dowell-Jones & David Kinley, The Monster Under the Bed: Financial Services and the Ruggie Framework
  • Rory Sullivan & Nicolas Hachez, Human Rights Norms for Business: The Missing Piece of the Ruggie Jigsaw – The Case of Institutional Investors
  • Meg Brodie, Pushing the Boundaries: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Operationalising the ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework
  • Christine Parker & John Howe, Ruggie’s Diplomatic Project and Its Missing Regulatory Infrastructure
  • Tara J. Melish & Errol Meidinger, Protect, Respect, Remedy and Participate: ‘New Governance’ Lessons for the Ruggie Framework