Deadline- 1 November 2013
The International Journal of Human Rights is accepting submissions for Corporate Power & Human Rights Special Issue that identify novel approaches to dissolving tensions between business and human rights, in keeping with the project’s objectives.
The purpose of this program is to offer platform from which academics, activists, businesspeople, and policymakers can transmit their ideas and engage their peers to robustly challenge their feasibility in order to develop meaningful alternatives to existing approaches.
Thematic areas-
- international trade agreements and the balancing of national and local human rights concerns in development projects;
- corporate complicity in human rights abuses;
- multinational corporate accountability;
- the uses and abuses of corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability;
- resistance, social movements, and human rights pressure groups and their impacts on business and management;
- energy and industry and its impacts on human rights;
- the impacts of the financial industry, financial regulation, and governance on human rights and their ability to instigate/encourage unethical behavior and human rights abuses;
- social media’s impact on grassroots movements, the visibility boost it needs to effect serious social change vis-a-vis corporate behavior;
- the sociology/psychology of corporate decision-making in relation to human rights;
- the expanding global consumer society and human rights;
- the content of inter-governmental obligations to aid human rights implementation, protection, and access to justice
- the role of economic theory in securing human rights;
- global enforcement of human rights obligations: legal thinking beyond a world court; and
- taxation, privatization, subsidies and their role in realizing/securing human rights.
Eligibility–
Applicants from around the world are invited to submit concept notes
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