BUSINESS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND CHILDREN: THE DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL AGENDA

International Human Rights–A Messy Business

LoraWildenthal’s newest book offers a model for historicizing the recent past with a specific focus on human rights. While Samuel Moyn’s 2010 manifesto on the history of human rights unleashed excitement and controversy within the field and undoubtedly turned historians’ aention to the need for rigorously researched and historically grounded works on the subject, Wildenthal is one of the first...

Rights , Responsibilities and Regulation of International Business

Over the past decade or so there has been an intriguing dual movement in the development of forms of regulation of business in the global economy. Since the 1980s the dominant trend has been liberalization, the relaxation or removal of national controls on international capital movements. It seemed to many that business firms and investors were close to attaining the goal of a free world market...

Ethics in International Conflict: The Nature and Effects of Humanitarian Rights on Women and Children

Background: In all wars, the only group that suffers even more than the military is the civilians, because they are the target of these conflicts due to their physiological condition, and because they are less able to defend themselves, they are more at risk than others. Individuals are exposed and more exposed to violence and violations of rights and freedoms than any other individual or group...

Multinational Corporations’ Economic and Human Rights Impacts on Developing Countries: a Review and Research Agenda

Developing countries are attracting a significant portion of global Foreign Direct Investments. Governments of such countries often compete fiercely for attracting Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in the expectation of the advantages they will bring to their economies, often prioritizing economic goals over fundamental human rights. For long, economists have analysed the economic impacts of MN...

Health and human rights: broadening the agenda for health professionals.