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Human rights obligations of MNCS under international law
Shaista Neelu
Human rights obligations of MNCS under international law - BangaloreBangalore NLSIU 2012 - 108 p. ; 25 cm.
Table of Contents DECLARATION ; CERTIFICATE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; TABLE OF CONTENTS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF CASES; CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION ; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Research Methodology ; 1.2.1 Research Objective ; 1.2.2 Hypothesis ; 1.2.3 Research Questions ; 1.2.4 Method of Analysis and Sources of Data ; 1.2.5 Mode of Citation ; 1.2.6 Chapterisation ; CHAPTER TWO LEGAL BASIS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSIBILITIES OF CORPORATION ; 2.1 National Legal Orders ; 2.1.1 The Alien Tort Claims Act of United States ; 2.1.2 Sosa vs. Alvarez-Machain, 54.2 U.S. 692, 729 (2004) ; 2.1.3 The US Court's Application of the Alien Torts Statute Subsequent to the Supreme Court's Judgment in Sosa; 2.2 The South African Constitution ; 2.2.1 Scope ; 2.2.2 The 1996 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa ; 2.3 International Human Rights Treaties ; 2.3.1 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 ; 2.3.2 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966; 2.3.3 The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1969; 2.3.4 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 ; CHAPTER THREE GENERAL OUTLINE OF OBLIGATIONS ; 3.1 Tripartite Typology of State Duties ; 3.1.1 Obligation to Respect ; 3.1.2 Obligation to Protect ; 3.1.3 Obligation to Fulfill ; 3.2 Obligation to Respect, Protect and fulfil: Corporation's responsibilities with respect to Right to Health; 3.2.1 Obligations to Respect ; 3.2.2 Obligations to Protect; 3.2.3 Obligations to Fulfil ; 3.3 Obligation to respect, Protect and Fulfil: Corporation's responsibilities with respect to Right to Water; 3.3.1 Obligations to Respect ; 3.3.2 Obligations to Protect; 3.3.3 Obligations to Fulfil ; 3.4 Obligations under International Human Rights Laws and UN Norms ; CHAPTER FOUR INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ; 4.1 Social Effects of Industrial revolution; 4.1.1 Factories and Urbanization ; 4.1.2 Child Labour ; 4.1.3 Organisation of Labour ; 4.2 ILO Convention No. 87: Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, 1948; 4.3 ILO Convention No. 102 of 1952 concerning Minimum Standards of Social Security ; 4.4 Conventions on Child Labour ; 4.4.1 Convention No. 5 of 1919 concerning Minimum Age in Industry ; 4.4.2 Convention No. 33 of 1932 concerning Minimum Age in Non-Industrial Employment; CHAPTER FIVE CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ; 5.1 Types of Rights; 5.1.1 First Generation Rights ; 5.1.2 Second Generation Rights ; 5.1.3 Third Generation Rights ; 5.2 Violations by multinational Corporations as regards Health ; 5.2.1 Niger Delta in Nigeria: Case of environmental degradation Due to Oil extraction; 5.2.2 Violations of Human Rights in Ecuador; 5.2.3 Selling of Counterfeit Drugs ; 5.2.4 Chemical disaster in Bhopal Gas Tragedy ; 5.3 Violations by Multinational Corporations as regards Water ; 5.3.1 Contamination of water in the river Chambira basin in Peru ; 5.3.2 Case of Coca-Cola bottling plants in India resulting in Contamination of ground water; 5.3.3 Deprivation of water due to construction of dams ; 5.3.4 Report of the International fact Finding Mission, an International NGO, on violations of the human right to water due to bauxite mining in Orissa in India ; 5.4 Violations by Multinational Corporations as regards Environment. ; 5.4.1 Right to Environment ; 5.4.2 Internationalization of Environmental protection ; 5.4.3 Rise of Multinational Corporations and Environmental justice ; 5.4.4 The World Charter for Nature (Resolution No. 3717, 28th October, 1982); 5.4.5 Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment ; 5.4.6 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992 ; 5.4.7 "Gold Standard" Certification and the Clean Development Mechanism; 5.4.8 Exporting environmental hazard through Multinational Enterprises: Can the State of Origin be held responsible? ; 5.4.9 The "Polluter Pays" Principle; CHAPTER SIX CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY; 6.1 The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations ; 6.2 The Tripartite Declaration of principles concerning MNCs ; 6.3 The UN Global Compact (2000) and the incorporation of Respect for Human Rights ; 6.4 Test for corporate human rights abuses under International law: Criminal liability or civil liability?; 6.5 Should there be an International Court on the lines of ICC to try MNCs; CHAPTER SEVEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE ; 7.1 Constitutional protection of Human Rights and Freedom of Trade; 7.1.1 Trade related measures of WTO and the need of exception clause in trade provisions of WTO ; 7.1.2 Extra territorial jurisdiction and the liability of MNCs ; 7.2 Constitutional functions of GATT and WTO: Guarantees Freedom, Nondiscrimination and Rule of Law; 7.3 Human Rights as Constitutional restraints on trade policy ; CHAPTER EIGHT CSR (CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY); 8.1 What is CSR? ; 8.1.1 Definition of CSR by the Commission of European Union; 8.1.2 The World Business Council for Sustainable Development Explains CSR ; 8.1.3 Definition by the Australian Corporations and Market Advisory Committee ; 8.2 Relevance of CSR to Multinational Corporations ; 8.2.1 Director's Duties ; 8.2.2 Foreign Direct liability laws ; 8.2.3 Voluntary Codes of Conduct; CHAPTER NINE CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Human rights obligations of MNCS under international law - BangaloreBangalore NLSIU 2012 - 108 p. ; 25 cm.
Table of Contents DECLARATION ; CERTIFICATE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; TABLE OF CONTENTS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF CASES; CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION ; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Research Methodology ; 1.2.1 Research Objective ; 1.2.2 Hypothesis ; 1.2.3 Research Questions ; 1.2.4 Method of Analysis and Sources of Data ; 1.2.5 Mode of Citation ; 1.2.6 Chapterisation ; CHAPTER TWO LEGAL BASIS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSIBILITIES OF CORPORATION ; 2.1 National Legal Orders ; 2.1.1 The Alien Tort Claims Act of United States ; 2.1.2 Sosa vs. Alvarez-Machain, 54.2 U.S. 692, 729 (2004) ; 2.1.3 The US Court's Application of the Alien Torts Statute Subsequent to the Supreme Court's Judgment in Sosa; 2.2 The South African Constitution ; 2.2.1 Scope ; 2.2.2 The 1996 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa ; 2.3 International Human Rights Treaties ; 2.3.1 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 ; 2.3.2 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966; 2.3.3 The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1969; 2.3.4 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 ; CHAPTER THREE GENERAL OUTLINE OF OBLIGATIONS ; 3.1 Tripartite Typology of State Duties ; 3.1.1 Obligation to Respect ; 3.1.2 Obligation to Protect ; 3.1.3 Obligation to Fulfill ; 3.2 Obligation to Respect, Protect and fulfil: Corporation's responsibilities with respect to Right to Health; 3.2.1 Obligations to Respect ; 3.2.2 Obligations to Protect; 3.2.3 Obligations to Fulfil ; 3.3 Obligation to respect, Protect and Fulfil: Corporation's responsibilities with respect to Right to Water; 3.3.1 Obligations to Respect ; 3.3.2 Obligations to Protect; 3.3.3 Obligations to Fulfil ; 3.4 Obligations under International Human Rights Laws and UN Norms ; CHAPTER FOUR INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ; 4.1 Social Effects of Industrial revolution; 4.1.1 Factories and Urbanization ; 4.1.2 Child Labour ; 4.1.3 Organisation of Labour ; 4.2 ILO Convention No. 87: Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, 1948; 4.3 ILO Convention No. 102 of 1952 concerning Minimum Standards of Social Security ; 4.4 Conventions on Child Labour ; 4.4.1 Convention No. 5 of 1919 concerning Minimum Age in Industry ; 4.4.2 Convention No. 33 of 1932 concerning Minimum Age in Non-Industrial Employment; CHAPTER FIVE CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ; 5.1 Types of Rights; 5.1.1 First Generation Rights ; 5.1.2 Second Generation Rights ; 5.1.3 Third Generation Rights ; 5.2 Violations by multinational Corporations as regards Health ; 5.2.1 Niger Delta in Nigeria: Case of environmental degradation Due to Oil extraction; 5.2.2 Violations of Human Rights in Ecuador; 5.2.3 Selling of Counterfeit Drugs ; 5.2.4 Chemical disaster in Bhopal Gas Tragedy ; 5.3 Violations by Multinational Corporations as regards Water ; 5.3.1 Contamination of water in the river Chambira basin in Peru ; 5.3.2 Case of Coca-Cola bottling plants in India resulting in Contamination of ground water; 5.3.3 Deprivation of water due to construction of dams ; 5.3.4 Report of the International fact Finding Mission, an International NGO, on violations of the human right to water due to bauxite mining in Orissa in India ; 5.4 Violations by Multinational Corporations as regards Environment. ; 5.4.1 Right to Environment ; 5.4.2 Internationalization of Environmental protection ; 5.4.3 Rise of Multinational Corporations and Environmental justice ; 5.4.4 The World Charter for Nature (Resolution No. 3717, 28th October, 1982); 5.4.5 Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment ; 5.4.6 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992 ; 5.4.7 "Gold Standard" Certification and the Clean Development Mechanism; 5.4.8 Exporting environmental hazard through Multinational Enterprises: Can the State of Origin be held responsible? ; 5.4.9 The "Polluter Pays" Principle; CHAPTER SIX CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY; 6.1 The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations ; 6.2 The Tripartite Declaration of principles concerning MNCs ; 6.3 The UN Global Compact (2000) and the incorporation of Respect for Human Rights ; 6.4 Test for corporate human rights abuses under International law: Criminal liability or civil liability?; 6.5 Should there be an International Court on the lines of ICC to try MNCs; CHAPTER SEVEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE ; 7.1 Constitutional protection of Human Rights and Freedom of Trade; 7.1.1 Trade related measures of WTO and the need of exception clause in trade provisions of WTO ; 7.1.2 Extra territorial jurisdiction and the liability of MNCs ; 7.2 Constitutional functions of GATT and WTO: Guarantees Freedom, Nondiscrimination and Rule of Law; 7.3 Human Rights as Constitutional restraints on trade policy ; CHAPTER EIGHT CSR (CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY); 8.1 What is CSR? ; 8.1.1 Definition of CSR by the Commission of European Union; 8.1.2 The World Business Council for Sustainable Development Explains CSR ; 8.1.3 Definition by the Australian Corporations and Market Advisory Committee ; 8.2 Relevance of CSR to Multinational Corporations ; 8.2.1 Director's Duties ; 8.2.2 Foreign Direct liability laws ; 8.2.3 Voluntary Codes of Conduct; CHAPTER NINE CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY.