性取向、人权和索契冬奥会的企业赞助:重新思考企业社会责任的自愿方式

IF 0.3 Q4 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Jeffrey A. Van Detta
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尽管主办国政府最近颁布了针对俄罗斯境内女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、变性人和双性人(LGBTI)群体的极其严厉的法律,但跨国企业仍为索契冬奥会提供了大量赞助。这是一个企业社会责任(CSR)问题。欧洲是否应该通过企业自愿遵守来解决这个问题,这是欧洲历来首选的促进企业社会责任的模式?或者,欧洲是否应该重新考虑是否可以通过立法更有效地促进企业社会责任合规——如果可以,应该通过什么样的立法?为了履行《阿姆斯特丹条约》和《基本人权宪章》对人权免受性取向歧视的明确和加强的保护,需要的不仅仅是自愿的良好意愿。特别是由于美国已经有效地退出了通过美国联邦法院执行CSR,现在存在一个监管空白,欧盟委员会最适合通过明智的规则制定提供的准确性来填补这一空白。文章最终提出了一种方法,将推动自愿企业社会责任的公众压力引擎与法律规定的公开披露相结合,以优化信息和动员公众舆论和压力——考虑到跨国公司通过奥运赞助寻求强大的“品牌”效益,这些因素尤其值得注意。
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Sexual Orientation, Human Rights, and Corporate Sponsorship of the Sochi Olympic Games: Rethinking the Voluntary Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility
Multi-national enterprises (MNEs) have provided substantial sponsorship for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games despite a host-country government that has recently enacted stunningly harsh legislation aimed at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) communities within Russia. This is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) problem. Should Europe address it through voluntary corporate compliance, Europe’s historically preferred mode of promoting CSR? Or should Europe reconsider whether it can more effectively promote CSR compliance legislatively – and if so, by what kind of legislation? To honor the explicit and increased protections of human rights against sexual orientation discrimination in the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Charter of Fundamental Human Rights, more than voluntary, good intentions are needed. Particularly since the United States has effectively bowed out of enforcing CSR through the American federal courts, there now exists a regulatory lacuna that the European Commission is best situated to fill through the precision offered by judicious rulemaking. The article ultimately proposes an approach that combines the public-pressure engine that fuels voluntary CSR with public disclosures mandated by law to optimize the information and mobilization of public opinion and pressure – factors particularly noteworthy given the powerful “branding” benefits that MNEs seek through Olympic sponsorship.
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