Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Business & Human Rights Law
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to Business & Human Rights Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Cases
- Abbreviations
- 1 Business and Human Rights
- 2 Reconciling International Human Rights with International Trade
- 3 Neoliberalism, State-Capitalism and European Ordo-Liberalism
- 4 Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
- 5 The Role of Business in International Development and the Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals
- 6 The Business Case for Human Rights
- 7 The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and Its Predecessors
- 8 The Regulatory Framework of Multinational Enterprises
- 9 The UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Their Enforcement Mechanisms
- 10 Taxation and Business
- 11 Corporate Accountability for the Natural Environment and Climate Change
- 12 Corporate Accountability for Corruption and the Business Case for Transparency
- 13 Disability, Business and Human Rights
- 14 Gender, Business and Human Rights
- 15 The Business Sector and the Rights to Work and Just and Favourable Conditions of Work
- 16 Responsible Lending
- 17 Business and Human Rights Approaches to Intellectual Property
- 18 The Role of Human Rights in Investment Law and Arbitration
- 19 The Use of International Arbitration Tribunals for Business and Human Rights Disputes
- 20 Innovative Contractual Remedies with Indigenous Peoples
- 21 The Role of Ethics in Corporate Human Rights Impact Assessments
- 22 Addressing Human Rights Impacts in Sustainability Reporting
- 23 Leveraging the Consumer-Led Movement to Strengthen Sustainable Business
- 24 The Structural Complexity of Multinational Corporations and the Effect on Managing Human Rights Risks in the Supply Chain
- 25 Towards a UN Business and Human Rights Treaty
- Index
21 - The Role of Ethics in Corporate Human Rights Impact Assessments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 September 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Business & Human Rights Law
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to Business & Human Rights Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Cases
- Abbreviations
- 1 Business and Human Rights
- 2 Reconciling International Human Rights with International Trade
- 3 Neoliberalism, State-Capitalism and European Ordo-Liberalism
- 4 Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
- 5 The Role of Business in International Development and the Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals
- 6 The Business Case for Human Rights
- 7 The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and Its Predecessors
- 8 The Regulatory Framework of Multinational Enterprises
- 9 The UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Their Enforcement Mechanisms
- 10 Taxation and Business
- 11 Corporate Accountability for the Natural Environment and Climate Change
- 12 Corporate Accountability for Corruption and the Business Case for Transparency
- 13 Disability, Business and Human Rights
- 14 Gender, Business and Human Rights
- 15 The Business Sector and the Rights to Work and Just and Favourable Conditions of Work
- 16 Responsible Lending
- 17 Business and Human Rights Approaches to Intellectual Property
- 18 The Role of Human Rights in Investment Law and Arbitration
- 19 The Use of International Arbitration Tribunals for Business and Human Rights Disputes
- 20 Innovative Contractual Remedies with Indigenous Peoples
- 21 The Role of Ethics in Corporate Human Rights Impact Assessments
- 22 Addressing Human Rights Impacts in Sustainability Reporting
- 23 Leveraging the Consumer-Led Movement to Strengthen Sustainable Business
- 24 The Structural Complexity of Multinational Corporations and the Effect on Managing Human Rights Risks in the Supply Chain
- 25 Towards a UN Business and Human Rights Treaty
- Index
Summary
This chapter is organized under two main sections. The first discusses how the content requirements of HRIAs are conflated with the ethical requirements of the assessment itself. This, narrow and inadequate species of HRIA ethics is quite different from the extensive body of legal ethics. The second section provides a case study of a World Bank-related impact assessment, which gives rise to legal and non-legal ethical issues and which is meant to demonstrate that the absence of concrete human rights-centred ethical guidelines in HRIAs can, even with the best of intentions, lead to outcomes that effectively violate fundamental rights.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Business and Human Rights Law , pp. 481 - 501Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021