Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Tom Campbell

      Pages 1-8

3. Rights and Responsibilities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Moral Dimensions of Human Rights

      • Tom Campbell

      Pages 11-30

   3. Human Rights: Whose Duties?

      • James Griffin

      Pages 31-43

   4. Welfare Rights as Human Rights and the Duties of Organisations

      • David Archard

      Pages 45-59

4. Corporate Responsibilities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility and the New Accountability

      • Doreen McBarnet

      Pages 63-80

   3. International Business Regulation: An Ethical Discourse in the Making?

      • Peter Muchlinski

      Pages 81-104

   4. Human Rights, Globalisation and the Modern Shareholder Owned Corporation

      • Wesley Cragg

      Pages 105-127

   5. Business and Human Rights

      • Tom Sorell

      Pages 129-143

   6. Autonomy as a Central Human Right and its Implications for the Moral Responsibilities of Corporations

      • Melissa Lane

      Pages 145-163

5. Public Sector Responsibilities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Human Rights and the Institution of the Police

      • Seumas Miller

      Pages 167-188

   3. Human Rights in Correctional Organisations in Australia and Asia: Some Criminological Observations

      • David Biles

      Pages 189-203

   4. Human Rights, the Moral Vacuum of Modern Organisations, and Administrative Evil

      • Guy Adams, Danny Balfour

      Pages 205-221

   5. Humanity, Military Humanism and the New Moral Order

      • Costas Douzinas

      Pages 223-242

6. Back Matter

   Pages 243-253

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All students and advocates of human rights will be interested in this concerted exploration of the human rights moral obligations that fall, not directly on states, but on private and public organisations. Such an approach to human rights opens up the possibility of holding corporations and bureaucracies to account for human rights violations even when they have acted in accordance with the law. This interdisciplinary and international project brings together eminent philosophers, lawyers, social scientists and practitioners to articulate theoretically and develop in practical contexts the moral implications of human rights for non-state actors. What emerges from the book as a whole is a distinctive contemporary vision of the emerging moral impact of human rights and its significance for organisational behaviour and performance.

• Autonomy
• Institution
• Nation
• business regulation
• morality
• non-state actors
• organization

• Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra

  Tom Campbell, Seumas Miller

• Australian National University, Australia

  Seumas Miller

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