Essays about: "Business and human rights"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 154 essays containing the words Business and human rights.

1. 21. The EU mandatory human rights due diligence legislations and FTA in Vietnam context – A useful toolbox or a set of decorative items

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Van Huan Nguyen; [2022]
   Keywords : Mandatory human rights due diligence; corporate sustainability due diligence; business and human rights; free trade agreement; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The EU is establishing its leadership in setting global rules and standards for sustainable development over the world through legal instruments with transformational effects on third countries. On the one hand, the EU is the leading region in the development of mHRDD legislations which has been hardened for the last decades and is now evolving to become CSDD, generating extraterritorial effects for human rights enjoyments through global value chains. READ MORE

3. 22. Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence - Harmony or Discrepancy : A parallel between international soft-law instruments and national legislation

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Kristijan Panev; [2022]
   Keywords : Human rights due diligence;

   Abstract : Human Rights Due Diligence is a key topic in the debates among human rights advocates and the business world. Its understanding varies from a standard ofexpected care to a process to manage business risks. READ MORE

4. 23. The Dark Side of Mineral Sourcing : The Responsible Sourcing Practices of Industrial Manufacturing Firms

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan (from 2013)

   Author : Ajnur Mujanovic; Erik Österberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Responsible sourcing; supply chain due diligence; supply chain visibility; traceability; supply chain management; Digital Twin; Etiskt inköp; supply chain due diligence; supply chain visibility; spårbarhet; supply chain management; Digital Twin;

   Abstract : In order to succeed with the Sustainable Development Goals, the mining of minerals will need to not only continue, but increase in the coming years. The extraction of minerals such as gold and cobalt is often associated with human rights violations and the financing of criminal enterprises. READ MORE

5. 24. Institutional Investors and Sustainability - An Analysis of Institutional Investors’ Legal Due Diligence Obligations

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

   Author : Louise Bjerrek; [2022]
   Keywords : Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation; Human Rights Due Diligence; Institutional Investors; Greenwashing; Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; National Contact Point.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The European Union’s Sustainable Finance Agenda has launched several new actions in order to reorient capital flow of the financial market to sustainability objectives. One of these initiatives was to unify and harmonize the rules on marketing of sustainable aims of financial products. READ MORE

6. 25. Just Sustainability Transitions in the Blue Economy: Towards Blue Justice in Small-Scale Artisanal Fisheries in the Pacific of Costa Rica

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Judith Baeta Humanes; [2022]
   Keywords : blue economy; small-scale artisanal fisheries; just transitions; blue justice; Costa Rica; fieldwork; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The blue economy emerged as sustainable, inclusive and equitable alternative to traditional oceans economy. However, the current paradigm of oceans as development spaces has led to an acceleration of competing uses of marine resources causing ecosystem deterioration and human rights abuses that disproportionately affect vulnerable small-scale fisheries. READ MORE