Public Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer (Corporations, Globalisation and the Law series)

Important new policy frameworks call on governments to ensure respect for human rights by businesses and to secure a transition to sustainable consumption. Public procurement accounts for a significant share of the global economy, and nearly 30% of government expenditure across OECD countries. But what are the obligations of the state to protect human rights when it acts as a buyer? And how can procurement be used to drive respect for human rights amongst government suppliers? This engaging book reflects on these important questions, from the dual disciplinary perspectives of public procurement and human rights. Through legal analysis and practice-focused case studies, the expert contributors interrogate the role and potential of public procurement as a driver for responsible business conduct. Highlighting the character of public procurement as an interface for multiple normative regimes and competing policies, the book advances a compelling case for a shift to a new paradigm of sustainable procurement that embraces human rights as crucial to realising international policies such as those embodied in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Topical and thought-provoking, Public Procurement and Human Rights will be an essential read for academics and students of human rights law, public procurement law, and business and human rights, as well as practitioners in public procurement and sustainability, and government officials. Contributors include: B.S. Claeson, E. Conlon, C. Emberson, P. Göthberg, O. Martin-Ortega, A. Marx, C. Methven O'Brien, C. Nicholas, O. Outhwaite, G. Quinot, D. Russo, A. Sanchez-Graells, J. Sinclair, R. Stumberg, A. Trautrims, N. Vander Meulen, S. Williams-Elegbe. Contents:Editors’ prefacePART I INTRODUCTION1. Public procurement and human rights: interrogating the role of the state as buyer Olga Martin-Ortega and Claire Methven O’BrienPART II FRAMEWORKS AND ACTORS 2. Human rights and national procurement rules in the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government ProcurementOpi Outhwaite3. Human rights in the context of public procurements financed by the World Bank Sope Williams-Elegbe4. The human rights responsibilities of international organizations as procuring authorities Deborah Russo5. Constitutionalising public procurement through human rights: lessons from South AfricaGeo Quinot6. Public procurement and ‘core’ human rights: a sketch of the European Union legal framework Albert Sanchez-Graells7. Civil liability for abuses of ILO core labour rights in European Union government supply chains: Ireland as a case studyEamonn Conlon8. Public procurement and human rights: current role and potential of voluntary sustainability standards Axel MarxPART III OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES: INSIGHTS FROM PRACTICE9. Outsourcing and bonded labour in military and diplomatic security services James Sinclair10. Public procurement and human rights in the healthcare sector: the Swedish county councils’ collaborative model Pauline Göthberg11. Public procurement and modern slavery risks in the English adult social care sector Caroline Emberson and Alexander Trautrims12. Making rights effective in public procurement supply chains: lessons from the electronics sector Björn Skorpen Claeson13. Supply chain transparency in public procurement: lessons from the apparel sector Robert Stumberg and Nicole Vander MeulenPART IV CONCLUSION 14 Public procurement and human rights: towards legal and policy coherence in pursuit of sustainable market economies Claire Methven O’Brien and Olga Martin-Ortega Index La 4e de couverture indique : "Important new policy frameworks call on governments to ensure respect for human rights by businesses and to secure a transition to sustainable consumption. Public procurement accounts for a significant share of the global economy, and nearly 30% of government expenditure across OECD countries. But what are the obligations of the state to protect human rights when it acts as a buyer? And how can procurement be used to drive respect for human rights amongst government suppliers? This engaging book reflects on these important questions, from the dual disciplinary perspectives of public procurement and human rights. Through legal analysis and practice-focused case studies, the expert contributors interrogate the role and potential of public procurement as a driver for responsible business conduct. Highlighting the character of public procurement as an interface for multiple normative regimes and competing policies, the book advances a compelling case for a shift to a new paradigm of sustainable procurement that embraces human rights as crucial to realising international policies such as those embodied in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Topical and thought-provoking, Public Procurement and Human Rights will be an essential read for academics and students of human rights law, public procurement law, and business and human rights, as well as practitioners in public procurement and sustainability, and government officials." Important new policy frameworks call on governments to ensure respect for human rights by businesses and to secure a transition to sustainable consumption. Public procurement accounts for a significant share of the global economy, and nearly 30% of government expenditure across OECD countries. But what are the obligations of the state to protect human rights when it acts as a buyer? And how can procurement be used to drive respect for human rights amongst government suppliers? This engaging book reflects on these important questions, from the dual disciplinary perspectives of public procurement and human rights.0Through legal analysis and practice-focused case studies, the expert contributors interrogate the role and potential of public procurement as a driver for responsible business conduct. Highlighting the character of public procurement as an interface for multiple normative regimes and competing policies, the book advances a compelling case for a shift to a new paradigm of sustainable procurement that embraces human rights as crucial to realising international policies such as those embodied in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals "This timely work reflects on the role and obligations of the state as a buyer of goods and services, from the dual disciplinary perspectives of public procurement and human rights. Through theoretical and doctrinal analyses, and practice-focused case studies, it interrogates the evolving character of public procurement as an interface for multiple normative regimes and competing policies. Challenging the prevailing paradigm which subordinates human rights to narrowly-defined economic goals, insightful contributions advance a compelling case for greater inter-disciplinarity and policy coherence as crucial to realising international policies such as those embodied in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals."