Operationalising the UN Business and Human Rights Framework: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights and Due Diligence

Peter Muchlinski

Chapter 12 in Transnational Corporations and Transnational Governance, 2015, pp 325-353 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The debate on the legal and ethical responsibilities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to respect human rights has become one of the most significant recent developments in the wider field of corporate social responsibility (CSR). That debate has been fuelled by the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (Guiding Principles) endorsed in June 2011 by the UN Human Rights Council for implementing the UN ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework (UN Framework).1 This instrument can be said to constitute, ‘the first global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse human rights impact linked to business activity’2 It is the purpose of this chapter to develop a specific theme in the wider debate, namely, the role of the due diligence concept in formulating and making operational the second pillar of the UN Framework, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Supply Chain; Corporate Responsibility; Global Reporting Initiative; Multinational Enterprise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137467690_12

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