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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2020
Print publication year:
2020
Online ISBN:
9781108681841
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108681841
Subjects:
Financial Law, Law, Human Rights
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Book description

Children's Rights and Business: Governing Obligations and Responsibility is a comprehensive legal inquiry into children's rights and business. Relying on insights from various disciplines, the book illustrates the need for a children-focused inquiry on business and human rights. An analysis of the norm legalization process around the regulation of business and human rights, particularly of children's rights follows the inquiry into existing hard and soft law regulatory frameworks on children's rights and business. The book goes on to evaluate the promise of these frameworks in light of globalized business transactions through the lens of in-depth case illustrations on children's rights in cotton and mineral supply chains and children's rights in large-scale energy and transport investment projects. Finally, it concludes with a normative outlook on governing the children's rights obligations of businesses and responsibility when violations occur, drawing on global governance approaches.

Reviews

'Throughout the veritable industry that is now ‘business and human rights’ the plight of children is too often overlooked or understudied. In this impressively ambitious book Gamze Erdem Türkelli first illustrates precisely how the corporate exploitation of children is different and disproportionate, and then mounts a convincing argument for what domestic and international legal systems can do to educate, cajole, coerce, and punish irresponsible corporations.'

David Kinley - Chair in Human Rights Law, University of Sydney

'Business greatly impacts on children’s Iives. Nevertheless, while business and human rights matters have been discussed for four decades, children’s rights only entered this scene rather recently. In her lucid book, Gamze Erdem Turkelli appealingly unlocks the developments involved, both in theory and in practice. Cases from Uzbekistan, the DRC and Uganda finely illustrate child rights aspects that have come up in the cotton sector, mineral extraction, and infrastructure projects.'

Karin Arts - International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

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