The Business of Human Rights is an essential text that provides a human rights approach to corporate responsibilities, and places of these responsibilities within society across the globe. This unique text provides for the reader an accessible introduction to many questions of law, politics, economics and international relations and how they relate to one another, whilst also encouraging non-legal perspectives on how businesses operate within and around human rights.
1. Human rights in business contexts: an overview Aurora Voiculescu and Helen Yanacopulos 2. Human rights and the normative ordering of global capitalism Aurora Voiculescu 3. Brands, corporate social responsibility and reputation management Fiona Harris 4. Transforming labour standards to labour rights Piya Pangsapa and Mark J. Smith 5. Voilent corporate crime, corporate social responsibility and human rights Gary Slapper 6. Access to medicines: intellectual property rights, human rights and justice Keren Bright and Lois Muragur 7. Foundations - actors of change? Helen Yanacopulos 8. Combating transnational corporate corruption: enhancing human rights and good governance John Hatchard 9. Business in zones of conflict: an emergent corporate security responsibility? Nicole Dietelhoff and Klaus Deiter Wolf 10. Human rights, ethics and international business: the case of Nigeria Olufemi Amao 11. Clusters of injustice: human rights, environmental sustainability and labour standards Mark J. Smith and Piya Pangsapa