New UI Brief: Corporate Social Responsibility 2014. Business as usual?
This UI Brief argues for a reconsideration of the doctrine of the state as being the only bearer of protecting and ensuring the human rights of its people.
In a globalized world, the difference of opinions does not concern whether the state is the only 'threat' to the realization of human rights, it is whether companies can and should be recognized as legal entities under International Human Rights Law. Careful considerations will have to be made in order to decide on how to best realize compliance with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
About the author: Frida Olsson Avereyireh, LL.M (Master of Laws) was a scholarship holder at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs during spring 2014 (February-May). Frida specializes in International Protection of Human Rights and CSR in fragile states.
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Corporate Social Responsibility 2014. Business as usual?