Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations

Download or read book Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations written by Tom Campbell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.