"Today business and human rights has emerged as a distinct field within the broader corporate responsibility movement. The endorsement by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in 2011 has been welcomed as the leading global...

1. Whither corporate social responsibility and the UN guiding principles on business and human rights in ASEAN? / Thomas Thomas -- 2. Business and human rights challenges in ASEAN : the role and modalities of the state / Delphia Lim and Geetanjali Mukherjee -- 3. Why gender matters for the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding "Bhopal" afresh -- 3. Evaluation of existing regulatory initiatives : an analytical framework -- 4. Existing regulatory initiatives : an evaluation of (in)adequacy -- 5. Just profit or just profit : why should corporations have human rights obligations? -- 6....

The Right to Development in International Law rigorously explores the right to development (RTD) from the perspectives of international law as well as the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and the Islamic concept of social justice in Pakistan. The volume draws on a wide range of...