Humberto Cantú Rivera, Danielle Anne Pamplona, Ulf Thoene
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加布里埃尔·加西亚·马尔克斯(Gabriel García Márquez)在其1967年的里程碑式小说《百年孤独》(One Years of Solitude)中写到了“香蕉大屠杀”,在那场大屠杀中,为改善工作条件而罢工反对联合果品公司的种植园工人被军方杀害。尽管这是魔幻现实主义小说中描绘的一个事件,但这个例子也展示了拉丁美洲的一些特点,在那里,殖民主义、企业和政府之间的密切关系,以及保护人民免受侵犯人权的持续斗争,不仅在文学中,而且在现实生活中经常融合在一起。事实上,拉丁美洲的特点是非常进步的国内人权框架与日益严重的社会不平等和贫困之间存在矛盾;作为全球价值链的一部分,同时在非正规经济中也占有重要比例;以及在没有足够强大的法治和脆弱的民主的情况下促进规则和做法的发展。在某种程度上,作为魔幻现实主义的土地,商业和人权领域在许多情况下都是该地区细微差别和复杂性的真实例子,该地区的进步和挑战经常交织在一起。
Business and Human Rights in Latin America: An Introduction to the Special Issue
In his landmark 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez wrote about the ‘Banana Massacre’, where plantation workers that had been striking against the United Fruit Company to improve their working conditions were killed by the military. Despite being an event depicted in a magic realism novel, this example also shows some of the characteristics of Latin America, where colonialism, the close relationship between business and governments, and the incessant fight to protect people from human rights abuses, often converge not just in literature, but in real life. Indeed, Latin America is marked by contradictions between very progressive domestic human rights frameworks and increasing levels of social inequality and poverty; by being part of global value chains while also having an important percentage of informal economy; and by promoting the development of rules and practices without a sufficiently strong rule of law and fragile democracies. To some extent, as the land of magic realism, the business and human rights field in many cases is a real-life example of the nuances and complexities of the region, where progress and challenges are frequently intertwined.
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The Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) provides an authoritative platform for scholarly debate on all issues concerning the intersection of business and human rights in an open, critical and interdisciplinary manner. It seeks to advance the academic discussion on business and human rights as well as promote concern for human rights in business practice. BHRJ strives for the broadest possible scope, authorship and readership. Its scope encompasses interface of any type of business enterprise with human rights, environmental rights, labour rights and the collective rights of vulnerable groups. The Editors welcome theoretical, empirical and policy / reform-oriented perspectives and encourage submissions from academics and practitioners in all global regions and all relevant disciplines. A dialogue beyond academia is fostered as peer-reviewed articles are published alongside shorter ‘Developments in the Field’ items that include policy, legal and regulatory developments, as well as case studies and insight pieces.