Citation: Dhanarajan, Sumi (2015) Transnational business human rights regulations and their effects upon human rights protection. In: Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, pp. 89-96. ISBN 978-0-9931102-2-1
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Abstract
Contemporary corporate-related human rights abuses are often attributed to the processes of neo-liberal globalisation. Pressures upon nations to compete in the global marketplace, upon suppliers to produce ever-cheaper and everfaster, upon workers to accept more precarious terms of employment and upon communities to give up land and natural resources, all in the pursuit of economic growth have unveiled examples of the darker side of business operations within the global economy. Whereas this side was more hidden and less susceptible to resistance in a different era, transnational activism in this age – with the aid of new forms of communication technology and media – has enabled greater public awareness of this miscreant behaviour and the ensuing injustices.
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| Additional Information: | To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights offered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, we are pleased to publish a commemorative edited volume on human rights themes authored by distinguished alumni and faculty. |
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| Creators: | Dhanarajan, Sumi and |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.14296/SAS.ICwS.001.13 |
| Official URL: | http://events.sas.ac.uk/support-research/publicati... |
| Subjects: | Human Rights & Development Studies |
| Keywords: | human rights, refugee protection, women’s human rights, tax justice, business and human rights, poetry, rights in the digital age |
| Divisions: | Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies |
| Collections: | Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights |
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