Responsibility for human rights : transnational corporations in imperfect states /

Responsibility for Human Rights provides an original theoretical analysis of which global actors are responsible for human rights, and why. It does this through an evaluation of the different reasons according to which such responsibilities might be assigned: legalism, universalism, capacity and pub...

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Main Author: Karp, David Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:Cambridge studies in international relations ; 130.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Transnational corporations and human rights in practice, policy and international law
  • Legitimate authority, human rights and transnational actors
  • Are human rights responsibilities universal? : a conceptual framework of responsibility for human rights
  • The capacity approach : a construction and critique
  • The publicness approach to responsibility for human rights
  • Conclusions : non-state actors and human rights practice.