Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations (Issues in Business Ethics Book 20)

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. What emerges from the book as a whole is a distinctive contemporary vision of the emerging moral impact of human rights and its significance for organisational behaviour and performance. Introduction....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Moral Dimensions of Human Rights....Pages 11-30 Human Rights: Whose Duties?....Pages 31-43 Welfare Rights as Human Rights and the Duties of Organisations....Pages 45-59 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility and the New Accountability....Pages 63-80 International Business Regulation: An Ethical Discourse in the Making?....Pages 81-104 Human Rights, Globalisation and the Modern Shareholder Owned Corporation....Pages 105-127 Business and Human Rights....Pages 129-143 Autonomy as a Central Human Right and its Implications for the Moral Responsibilities of Corporations....Pages 145-163 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 Human Rights and the Institution of the Police....Pages 167-188 Human Rights in Correctional Organisations in Australia and Asia: Some Criminological Observations....Pages 189-203 Human Rights, the Moral Vacuum of Modern Organisations, and Administrative Evil....Pages 205-221 Humanity, Military Humanism and the New Moral Order....Pages 223-242 "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 right 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."--BOOK JACKET