Globalization, free trade, and individualization have opened up a worldwide marketplace for trading goods. The fair trade movement and other political consumerist endeavours view consumers as important active holders of responsibility for global welfare. Civil society and governments strive to...

Do investors have an obligation to not invest in corporations that contribute to human rights violations? – Even when such divestment neither causes changes in the corporations, nor prevents the violations? Is there a justification of divestment that holds up even in the face of general...

How can businesses and their shareholders avoid moral and legal complicity in human rights violations? 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 the twenty-first century, questions of corporate conduct in relation to human rights have come to the forefront of public attention. Several institutional investors such as pension funds, especially responsible private funds and government funds have established policies and practices to...

"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...

I denne artikkelen drøfter vi prøvingen av norsk rett i forhold til Den europeiske menneskerettighetskonvensjonen (EMK) ved Den europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstolen (EMD) og av Høyesterett, både ut fra demokratiske legitimitet og mulige andre grunnlag for legitim myndighetsutøvelse. Vi...

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Gro Nystuen, Andreas Follesdal and Ola Mestad; 2. Disinvestment on the basis of corporate contribution to human rights violations - the case of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Gro Nystuen; 3. Laws, standards, or voluntary guidelines? Simon...