Business and Human Rights Regulation After the UN Guiding Principles: Accountability, Governance, Effectiveness.

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Human Rights Review Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-03-14 DOI:10.1007/s12142-022-00656-2
René Wolfsteller, Yingru Li
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Since the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011, they have diffused into policy frameworks, laws, and regulations across the globe. This special issue seeks to advance the interdisciplinary field of human rights research by examining key elements of the emerging transnational regime for the regulation of business and human rights. In seven original contributions, scholars from political science, law, accounting, and philosophy critically reflect on the theoretical foundations of the UNGPs, they analyze the effectiveness of implementation mechanisms and current regulatory practice, and they advance proposals for the future development of the business and human rights regime. In this introduction, we prepare the ground for these analyses, proceeding in three steps. Firstly, we argue that the adoption of the UNGPs has triggered a norm cascade which requires a distinctive, empirically oriented research agenda focusing on the scope, governance, and effectiveness of corporate human rights accountability norms and instruments. Secondly, we explain how the articles in this special issue contribute to that research agenda by addressing these themes. Thirdly, we provide an overview of the individual contributions and point out avenues for future research.

联合国指导原则之后的商业和人权监管:问责制、治理、有效性。
自2011年联合国人权理事会通过《联合国商业与人权指导原则》以来,这些原则已渗透到全球的政策框架、法律和法规中。本期特刊旨在通过审查新兴的跨国企业和人权监管制度的关键要素,推动人权研究的跨学科领域。在七篇原创文章中,来自政治学、法律、会计和哲学的学者批判性地反思了UNGP的理论基础,分析了实施机制和当前监管实践的有效性,并对商业和人权制度的未来发展提出了建议。在这篇引言中,我们分三个步骤为这些分析奠定了基础。首先,我们认为,UNGP的通过引发了规范级联,这需要一个独特的、以经验为导向的研究议程,重点关注企业人权问责规范和文书的范围、治理和有效性。第二,我们解释本期特刊中的文章如何通过处理这些主题为研究议程做出贡献。第三,我们概述了个人的贡献,并指出了未来研究的途径。
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2.70
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14.30%
发文量
22
期刊介绍: Human Rights Review is an interdisciplinary journal which provides a scholarly forum in which human rights issues and their underlying empirical, theoretical and philosophical foundations are explored. The journal seeks to place human rights practices and policies within a theoretical perspective in order to link empirical research to broader human rights issues. Human Rights Review welcomes submissions from all academic areas in order to foster a wide-ranging dialogue on issues of concern to both the academic and the policy-making communities. The journal is receptive to submissions drawing from diverse methodologies and approaches including case studies, quantitative analysis, legal scholarship and philosophical discourse in order to provide a comprehensive discussion concerning human rights issues.
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