Business, Human Rights and Sustainable Development

Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Ph.D., The University of Queensland, Australia, is Professor of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh. He is co-editor of International Trade Law and the WTO (Federation Press, 2013) and Human Rights after 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Reflections from the Global South (Brill| Nijhoff, 2024). M Rafiqul Islam is Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of International Trade Law of the WTO (Oxford, 2006), National Trials of International Crimes in Bangladesh: Transitional Justice as Reflected in Judgments (Brill| Nijhoff, 2019), among others.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesAcronyms and AbbreviationsNotes on EditorsNotes on ContributorsPart 1Socially Responsible Corporate Conducts1 Business, Human Rights, and Sustainable Development: An IntroductionMd Jahid Hosain Bhuiyan and M Rafiqul Islam2 Corporate Commitment to Human Rights and Sustainable DevelopmentStefan Zagelmeyer3 Business, Socio-economic Rights, Responsibilities, and Global InequalitiesJernej Letnar Černič4 Business, Human Rights and Plastic PollutionSara L Seck and Victoria Kongats5 The Application of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Conflict Areas: Corporate Responsibilities, Responses, and Non-responses in the Context of the Ukraine WarPeter Muchlinski6 Corporate Responsibility to Redress Human Rights Violations Related to the Environment: The Long Road towards Ever-Growing Call for Legal Regulation and AccountabilityPaolo GalizziPart 2Interaction of Human Rights with Trade, Investment, and Finance7 The World Trading System, Human Rights and Sustainable DevelopmentErnst Ulrich Petersmann8 Foreign Direct Investment and Responsibility of Multinational Corporations for Human Rights ViolationsMd Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan9 Bilateral Development Finance Institutions, Business and Extraterritorial Human Rights ObligationsGamze Erdem TürkelliPart 3Business and Human Rights: Challenges for Implementation10 Human Rights Violations in Global Supply Chains: Acknowledging and Addressing Systemic AbusesOlga Martin-Ortega11 Transparency: See and Be SeenRobert Stumberg12 Transitional Justice Responses to Corporate AbuseNelson Camilo Sanchez13 Effective and Meaningful Dialogue through Company Grievance Mechanisms: Promoting Community Engagement, Sustainable Development and Conflict PreventionLisa J. Laplante14 Tort Law and the Scope of the Corporate Duty of Care in the Context of Business and Human RightsJindan-Karena Mann15 Lopsided Distribution of covid Vaccines under Stringent Pharmaceutical Patent Law and Its Marginalising Effects on the Global South: A Reformist Human Rights ApproachKhorsed Zaman and M Rafiqul Islam16 Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage – Reconciling Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and Indigenous Worldviews through Proactive Approaches and EngagementRosa Ballardini, Iiris Tuominen and Dino Girardi17 Business and Human Rights in the Data EconomyMariam Shakil, Isabel Ebert and Florian Wettstein18 Aligning Business Efforts to Combat Corruption and Respect Human RightsDavid HessIndex