Corporate Social Responsibility and International Human Rights Law

McCorquodale, Robert

doi:10.1007/s10551-009-0296-5

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“…Ou seja: os acordos mantêm a lógica da ação voluntária das empresas, monitorada por mecanismos de mercado e não por legislações e regulamentações específicas. A busca de Ruggie (2013) por uma alternativa consensual para o estabelecimento de comprometimento de empresas com o respeito aos direitos humanos se deve ao entendimento de que um tratado enfrentaria oposição tanto de empresas quanto de Estados (SEPPALA, 2009;McCORQUODALE, 2009;RUGGIE, 2004aRUGGIE, , 2013.…”

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“…Para McCorquodale (2009) as obrigações das empresas em relação aos direitos humanos devem ser garantidas também pelos países-base dessas corporações. Contudo, muitas vezes as subsidiárias operam baseadas em outros territórios e Estados que não nas sedes das controladoras, ou as empresas estão envolvidas apenas indiretamente ou com parceiros na operação de negócios que violam direitos humanos (McCORQUODALE, 2009;WHEELER, 2015). Banerjee (2008a) alerta que o estabelecimento de protocolos de ação e acordos chancelados pela Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) pode abrir espaço para o uso da entidade como forma de escamotear críticas e blindagem de práticas condenáveis (chamado de bluewashing).…”

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Empresas e direitos humanos: premissas, tensões e possibilidades

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2018

Organ. Soc.

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Resumo Este trabalho reflete sobre a importância de se abrir mais espaço nas discussões no campo da administração para a reflexão a respeito das responsabilidades das empresas em relação aos direitos humanos. Pondera-se sobre a responsabilização das empresas no que concerne ao respeito e à proteção de direitos humanos, discutindo as complexidades do tema. Nesse sentido, é apontada a necessidade de se ter cautela em relação à aceitação das corporações como atores políticos capazes de ocupar espaços do Estado, sem problematizar essa substituição ou questionar o grau de responsabilização que se conseguiria atribuir às empresas. Argumenta-se que, embora tenha um apelo ao universalismo, a governança dos direitos humanos e, consequentemente, a forma que eles assumem na contemporaneidade, é marcada pela relação de poder Norte-Sul. Por fim, a responsabilização moral das organizações por vias legais ou extralegais é importante e um avanço em relação ao campo cinzento em que muitas empresas operam, e que tal movimento parece ser uma tendência contemporânea que tende a se fortalecer.Palavras-chave: Direitos humanos e empresas. Governança global. Relações Norte Global-Sul Global.businEss and human rights: prEmisEs, tEnsions, and promisEs Abstract T his paper emphasizes the importance of giving space in Brazilian academia to the debates around the responsibilities of business human towards rights. The work emphasizes the complexities around the discussion and points to the necessary caution towards the engagement of corporations as political actors occupying spaces that before belonged only to the states. Moreover, I discuss the relation with the accountability of companies regarding the respect or, in some cases, the protection of human rights. Questioning the human rights appeal to universalism, it is argued that the governance of human rights and the form they take in contemporary society is marked by the power relations between the Global North and the Global South. Finally, it is pointed out that organization moral accountability from hard or soft law regulations is important and a step forward in comparison to the gray field in which many companies operate. Such a move appears to be a contemporary trend that tends to strengthen itself.

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“…For example, it is reflected in the reports of John Ruggie as the Special Representative to the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) on business and human rights (Ruggie, 2007;UN 2008a, b) and the descriptive and normative legal, management and business ethics commentaries the reports have generated (Arnold 2010;Cragg 2012;Fasterling and Demuijnck 2013;Mayer 2009;McCorquodale 2009;Muchlinski 2012;Nolan and Taylor 2009;Whelan and Orlitzky 2009;Wood 2012). The SRSG's Framework (UN 2008b) and Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UN 2011) adopted a ''protect, respect and remedy'' framework essentially stipulating respective state and corporate obligations to ''protect and fulfill'' and ''respect'' human rights.…”

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“…The ''respect'' obligation is ''not to infringe on the rights of others-put simply, to do no harm'' (UN 2008b) and requires corporate policy commitments, due diligence and remedial actions for human rights (UN 2011, Principle 15). Critics question this dichotomy, firstly, for not reflecting the reality of corporate power and influence (Cragg 2012;McCorquodale 2009;Mena et al 2010;Murphy and Vives 2013;Nolan and Taylor 2009;Seppala 2009;Wood 2012). Secondly, the SRSG focused on the legal and political aspects whereas human rights have both legal and political and moral dimensions.…”

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Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility: Competing or Complementary Approaches to Poverty Reduction and Socioeconomic Rights?

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Obibuaku

2014

J Bus Ethics

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Following the situation of poverty in the rights paradigm, this paper explores the links between the rightsbased and corporate social responsibility (CSR) approaches to the realization of socioeconomic rights in the broader context of an emerging recognition of CSR as private regulation of business behaviour. It examines complex theoretical and practical dimensions of responsibility and potential contributions of businesses to poverty alleviation and clarifies the apparent paradox of legal compulsion of essentially voluntary CSR activities. Rather than treat rights and CSR as parallel approaches to protecting socioeconomic rights, it is argued that CSR can be part of a coherent framework of laws and policies for legally translating broad human rights commitments to poverty reduction into concrete programmes. The paper demonstrates how legally propped CSR arrangements can support poverty reduction and appropriate task-specific contextualised definitions and boundaries of CSR that complement the rights-based approach. It is argued that human rights principles have normative dimensions to guide and help formulate policies, programmes and practices, which in turn allow for a creative use of and legal prop to CSR. The conceptualization of human rights is not restricted to one implementation method, and CSR can partly satisfy states' human rights obligations and transcend the narrow conventional human rights discourse on obligations of nonstate actors.

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“…It contributes to the literature on regulation and governance by discussing and explaining aspects of the UN Guiding Principles, a CSR instrument that has so far not been much discussed in this literature from the perspective of governance and transnational interaction (compare, however, Wood 2012, Muchlinski 2012. This contributes to discussions on the Guiding Principles and their precursor, the UN Framework, in the business ethics literature, which has focused on the moral background and possible conflicts between the legal and philosophical dimensions (Fasterling and Demuijnck 2013, Cragg 2012, Bernaz 2012, McCorquedale 2009, Wettstein 2009). …”

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confidence: 99%