Essays about: "Rebeca Borges Machado Azevedo Leitão"

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  1. 1. Financialization and human rights abuses provoked by business: the case of Samarco disaster in Brazil

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Rebeca Borges Machado Azevedo Leitão; [2017-09-13]
    Keywords : shareholder value; market discipline; mining industry; legally-binding instrument; Mariana;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore the implications of the financialization process on human rights compliance by business, based on an analysis of the Samarco case, in Brazil. In 2015, Samarco Company’s tailing dam collapsed and killed people, destroyed the surroundings and polluted 650 km of a river basin’s waters. READ MORE