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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-139-15308-0 , 1-107-22237-0 , 1-283-34262-6 , 1-139-16066-4 , 9786613342621 , 1-139-16166-0 , 1-139-15961-5 , 1-139-15609-8 , 1-139-15785-X , 1-139-00329-1

Content: How can businesses and their shareholders avoid moral and legal complicity in human rights violations? This central and contemporary issue in the field of ethics, politics and law is of concern to intergovernmental organizations such as the UN and to many NGOs, as well as investors and employees. In this volume legal scholars and political philosophers identify and address the intertwined issues of moral and legal complicity in human rights violations by companies and those who invest in them. By describing the legal aspects of human rights violations in the corporate sphere, addressing the complicity of companies with regard to such norms and exploring the influence of investors, the book provides a thorough introduction to corporate social responsibility. Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment will set the research agenda on socially responsible investment for years to come.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Disinvestment on the basis of corporate contribution to human rights violations : the case of the Norwegian Government Pension / , Laws, standards, or voluntary guidelines / , Responsibility beyond the law? / , Attribution of responsibility of listed companies / , Responsibility for human rights violations, acts or omissions, within the 'sphere of influence' of companies / , Human rights investment filters : a defense / , Moral responsibilities of shareholders : a conceptual map / , Sovereign-wealth funds and (un)ethical investment : using 'due diligence' to avoid contributing to human rights violations committed by companies in the investment portfolio / , Corporations and criminal complicity / , English

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Language: English

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003292

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ISBN: 9781139003292

Content: How can businesses and their shareholders avoid moral and legal complicity in human rights violations? This central and contemporary issue in the field of ethics, politics and law is of concern to intergovernmental organizations such as the UN and to many NGOs, as well as investors and employees. In this volume legal scholars and political philosophers identify and address the intertwined issues of moral and legal complicity in human rights violations by companies and those who invest in them. By describing the legal aspects of human rights violations in the corporate sphere, addressing the complicity of companies with regard to such norms and exploring the influence of investors, the book provides a thorough introduction to corporate social responsibility. Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment will set the research agenda on socially responsible investment for years to come

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Disinvestment on the basis of corporate contribution to human rights violations : the case of the Norwegian Government Pension , Laws, standards, or voluntary guidelines , Responsibility beyond the law? , Attribution of responsibility of listed companies , Responsibility for human rights violations, acts or omissions, within the 'sphere of influence' of companies , Human rights investment filters : a defense , Moral responsibilities of shareholders : a conceptual map , Sovereign-wealth funds and (un)ethical investment : using 'due diligence' to avoid contributing to human rights violations committed by companies in the investment portfolio , Corporations and criminal complicity

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781107012851

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Human rights, corporate complicity and disinvestment Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011 ISBN 9781107012851

Additional Edition: ISBN 1107012856

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107012851

Language: English

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139003292

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Author information: Føllesdal, Andreas 1958-

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Format: 1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781107012851 , 9781139157858

Content: How can businesses and their shareholders avoid moral and legal complicity in human rights violations? In this book legal scholars and political philosophers address the relationship between illegal complicity and other unethical or immoral complicity, and responses to the fragmentation of responsibility brought on by globalisation

Note: Cover -- Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment -- Tiltle -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on the contributors -- Referenced case law -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1. Three normative frameworks -- 2. The Ethical Guidelines for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global -- 2.1 Processing of cases under the Ethical Guidelines -- 2.2 Recommendations related to human rights issues -- 3. Contents of the book -- 2 Disinvestment on the basis of corporate contribution to human rights violations: the case of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Three recommendations regarding human rights abuses -- 2. Framing the issues -- 3. Non-state entities and human rights violations -- 4. The human rights criterion in the Ethical Guidelines -- 4.1 The wording of the criterion - interpretation -- 4.2 The concept of 'contribution' or 'complicity' under the Guidelines -- 4.3 Investor 'contribution' -- 4.4 Application of the 'complicity' standard -- 4.5 Links between company conduct and human rights violations -- 4.6 Future complicity -- 4.7 Presence in states with oppressive regimes -- 5. Summing up -- 3 Laws, standards or voluntary guidelines? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Norwegian Government Pension Fund and the Council on Ethics -- 2.1 The turn to ethics -- 2.2 The Council's recommendations -- 3. Legal and non-legal approaches to regulating multinational corporations -- 3.1 Regulation in the local jurisdiction -- 3.2 Regulation in the home jurisdiction of a multinational corporation -- 3.3 International law -- 3.4 Voluntary codes -- 4. Ethics, complicity and responsibility -- 5. Law, ethics and politics -- 6. Conclusion -- 4 Responsibility beyond the law? -- 1. Ownership and responsibility -- 2. Complicity as an ethical versus a legal concept -- 3. Corporate complicity versus individual complicity , 3.1 Contribution to a Group Crime under Article 25(3)(d) -- 3.2 The actus reus component necessary for corporate complicity under Article 25(3)(c) -- 3.3 The mens rea component for complicity -- 4. Concluding summary -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global: Ethical Guidelines 2010 -- Section 1. Scope -- Section 2. Exclusion of companies from the Fund's investment universe -- Section 3. Observation of companies -- Section 4. The Council on Ethics for the Government Pension Fund - Global - appointment and mandate -- Section 5. The work of the Council on Ethics -- Section 6. Exchange of information and coordination between Norges Bank and the Council on Ethics -- Section 7. Notification of exclusion -- Section 8. List of excluded companies -- Section 9. Entry into force -- Appendix 2: Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global: Ethical Guidelines 2004 -- 1. Basis -- 2. Mechanisms -- 3. The exercise of ownership rights -- 4. Negative screening and exclusion -- Appendix 3: Guidelines for Norges Bank'sWork on Responsible Management and Active Ownership of the Government Pension Fund - Global (GPFG) -- Section 1. Norges Bank's work on responsible management -- Section 2. Active ownership -- Section 3. Contribution to the development of best practice in responsible investment -- Section 4. Reporting -- Section 5. Entry into force -- Bibliography -- Index , 4. Was the Graver Commission correct to focus solely on future complicity? -- 5. Responses to complicity: clean hands versus political agency -- 5 Attribution of responsibility to listed companies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Ethical Guidelines of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global and the US Alien Tort Claims Act -- 3. Complex ownership structures -- 4. Joint ventures involving listed companies -- 5. Supply chains and attribution through contracts -- 6. Non-attribution to company of conduct by an employee in corruption cases? -- 7. Conclusion: Some reflections on responsibility and spheres of control -- 6 Responsibility for human rights violations, acts or omissions, within the 'sphere of influence' of companies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is the legal status of the 'sphere of influence' concept? -- 2.1 Genesis of the 'sphere of influence' concept -- 2.2 Interpretations of the 'sphere of influence' concept -- 2.3 Case law analysis -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3. What makes it so difficult to define the notion of 'sphere of influence'? -- 4. Approaches to the definitional problem -- 4.1 Top-down approach -- 4.2 Bottom-up approaches -- 5. 'Sphere of influence': virtue despite vagueness? -- 7 Human rights investment filters: a defence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical background -- 3. A social contract theory for business obligations regarding human rights -- 3.1 The multiple contributions of institutions -- 3.2 Bringing social contract theory to bear -- 3.3 Normative standards for the GBS: Respect for Vital Human Interests -- 4. Investors' obligations under globalization -- 4.1 The Global Basic Structure as topic -- 4.2 Changing the obligations of corporations -- 4.3 Why target corporations and investors? -- 5. Objections considered -- 5.1 The investor does not intend such violations of vital interests , 5.2 This is amoral self-indulgence: if I don't invest, someone else will -- 5.3 A focus on divestment drains attention and other resources from obligations to prevent harm -- 6. Conclusion -- 8 The moral responsibilities of shareholders: a conceptual map -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Causal responsibility -- 2.1 Complicity -- 3. Role responsibility -- 3.1 Principal/agent -- 3.2 Attitude responsibility -- 4. Conclusion -- 9 Sovereign wealth funds and (un)ethical investment: using 'due diligence' to avoid contributing to human rights violations committed by companies in the investment portfolio -- 1. Introduction: New kids in town -- 1.1 Sovereign wealth funds as actors in the international monetary and financial system -- 1.2 Scope of this contribution -- 2. On socially responsible investment -- 2.1 The concept -- 2.1.1 When are the non-financial criteria taken into account? -- 2.1.2 Which reactions can be resorted to? -- 2.2 Active engagement -- 2.3 Divestment -- 3. On sovereign wealth funds, international legal state responsibility and 'due diligence' -- 3.1 Sovereign wealth funds and human rights violations committed by the foreign companies in which they invest: the classic view of international law -- 3.1.1 Attributability -- 3.1.2 Extraterritoriality -- 3.1.3 Activity-specific prohibitions -- 3.2 Introducing 'due diligence' as a policy tool to shape sovereign wealth funds' investment policy -- 3.2.1 'Due diligence' outside the realm of international law -- 3.2.2 'Due diligence' in international law -- 3.2.3 'Due diligence' and sovereign wealth funds' investment policy -- 4. Conclusion -- 10 Corporations and criminal complicity -- 1. International law is perhaps a starting point but not the be all and end all -- 2. The emergence of complicity studies -- 3. Corporate complicity and the Alien Tort Statute

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