Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights: Global Trends and Issues Concerning Indigenous Peoples

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In Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights, the author provides a comprehensive analysis and insight about critical human rights and corporate social responsibility issues and trends, and brings together important developments in these two disciplines in a single text. The author examines the character of social responsibility practices by corporations, and how corporate entities fulfill their responsibility to respect human rights in general, and indigenous peoples rights in particular. The author argues that considering the momentous impact of corporate projects and certain significant developments in the area of international human rights, an establishment of a universal binding corporate code of conduct is inescapable. The author concludes that respect for human rights by corporations should not simply be viewed as a moral or legal matter, but also as a bottom-line issue.

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A fascinating interdisciplinary look at the human rights and economic conditions impacting indigenous populations today.
In this comprehensive work, Jide James-Eluyode provides a well-informed analysis of the legal issues at the intersection of corporate social responsibility and the human rights of Indigenous peoples. This book illustrates how corporations can transform the lives of vulnerable and marginalized populations.
Jide James-Eluyode's Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights tackles some of the most difficult issues in contemporary international human rights law in a straightforward, thoughtful, and accessible manner. Carefully researched, clearly organized, and engagingly written, James-Eluyode addresses the dilemmas that arise when a body of law that has long focused on state obligations and individual rights is forced to confront tensions between corporate power and the collective rights of Indigenous peoples. Utilizing examples from communities in all parts of the world, he illustrates emerging legal norms and the contrasting ways in which they are often interpreted in developed and developing states. His presentation is thoughtful rather than polemical, providing a framework of great utility for readers across the spectrum, from students of international law and human rights, to corporate counsel, to Indigenous and/or environmental rights activists.
This book engages the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) from a wider, more pragmatic and multidimensional perspective of the indigenous people. James-Eluyode encapsulates the demands of indigenous rights as group rights within the context of a functional CSR and human rights developments. An ingenious treatise on the subject of global concern, the work is second to none.

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Jide James-Eluyode is faculty associate in the School of Social & Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University.