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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Campbell, Tom (Editor), Miller, Seumas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Issues in Business Ethics, 20
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Business.; Management science.; Ethics.; Public international law.; Economic policy.; Social sciences.; Public International Law.; Social Sciences, general.; Economic Policy.; Business and Management, general.

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 bureaucr...

Table of Contents:

• Rights and Responsibilities
• Moral Dimensions of Human Rights
• Human Rights: Whose Duties?
• Welfare Rights as Human Rights and the Duties of Organisations
• Corporate Responsibilities
• Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility and the New Accountability
• International Business Regulation: An Ethical Discourse in the Making?
• Human Rights, Globalisation and the Modern Shareholder Owned Corporation
• Business and Human Rights
• Autonomy as a Central Human Right and its Implications for the Moral Responsibilities of Corporations
• Public Sector Responsibilities
• Human Rights and the Institution of the Police
• Human Rights in Correctional Organisations in Australia and Asia: Some Criminological Observations
• Human Rights, the Moral Vacuum of Modern Organisations, and Administrative Evil
• Humanity, Military Humanism and the New Moral Order.