Essays about: "corporate sustainability due diligence"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 essays containing the words corporate sustainability due diligence.
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11. Corporate Tax Abuse on the Business and Human Rights Agenda
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Corporate tax evasion, tax avoidance, and aggressive tax planning undermine states’ ability to protect, respect and fulfill human rights since states are deprived of necessary resources to realize economic, social and cultural rights as well as civil and political rights. Corporate tax has previously been called the elephant in the room within the United Nations’ (‘UN’) framework of Business and Human Rights; however, now it is recognized as a key issue for the next decade. READ MORE
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12. Future Generations: Fundamental or an Afterthought?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Det finns just nu momentum för att stängda de luckor i lagstiftningen kring företags ansvar för negativa effekter på mänskliga rättigheter. En av de mest ambitiösa åtagandena hittills är initiativet till ett EU-direktiv med syfte att kräva skälig aktsamhet (så kallad ”due diligence”) och ansvar från företag för påverkan på mänskliga rättigheter och miljön. READ MORE
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13. Home States' Duty to Protect Human Rights - To what extent is Sweden requiring Swedish corporations to comply with human rights extraterritorially?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : It has been argued that multinational corporations benefit from impunity when it comes to human rights violations due to inadequate corporate regulation in host states as well on the international level. Thus, there are three purposes of this thesis: first to examine to what extent states’ duty to protect human rights can be utilised to hold corporations accountable for human rights violations in their global activities. READ MORE
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14. Shopping for a better world - whether supply chain transparency can assure clarity within the pursuit of goods untainted by intolerable practices
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : As legislators in recent years have adopted regulations demanding companies to disclose information on their supply chains, a new chapter of corporate transparency has been opened. However, what power such regulations have to initiate a change of corporate behaviour is questionable. READ MORE
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15. To Buy or Not to Buy: Standards and practices of assessing environmental aspects of sites and companies
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : This research set out to describe the current state of Environmental due iligence, how it evolved, current trends, and where it may be headed. The approach taken to accomplish this was a literature review, comparison of international Environmental due diligence standards, in particular ASTM E-1527 00 and ISO 14015, review of six case studies of environmental due diligence assessment reports, and interviews with actors involved in the environmental due diligence process, including those who conduct and those who purchase, the environmental due diligence assessment. READ MORE
