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Diverging meanings of CSR and corporate responsibility for human rights : comparative study on Finnish firms and civil society organizations
2016
The role and responsibility of business enterprises and their potential impacts to wider society has attracted attention both in public debate and academia. Hence, the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a permanent part of the current discourse on business ethics. Firms of all size are increasingly engaging in CSR in order to respond the expectations directed to them by different stakeholders, including civil society organizations. In recent years the advancements done in regard to international guidelines on CSR have influenced to a more standardized style of CSR practices and reporting. Hence prior re- search on CSR has identified a need to move from content-drive…
Civil society participation in international decision making: recent developments and future perspectives in the indigenous rights arena
2012
This article focuses on key issues and recent developments concerning indigenous peoples' involvement in international decision making affecting their rights and interests. Based on a human rights-based approach to participation, it suggests that while a number of positive steps have been taken to allow indigenous peoples the possibility to take part to, and influence, relevant intergovernmental decision-making processes, there's a need to provide their own self-governing institutions and organisations with a more influential status than that granted to civil society organisations (CSOs) generally, whereby they can exercise different levels of participatory rights, depending upon the nature…
Algunas consideraciones bioéticas y jurídicas acerca de la Declaración de Ginebra sobre edición del genoma humano hereditario a la vista de las Decla…
2021
[ES] La reciente Declaración de Ginebra sobre edición del genoma humano denuncia la posición central que han ocupado tanto la Ciencia como la Bioética hasta la fecha, afirmando que ambas mantienen una posición decididamente favorable respecto a esta bioingeniería, y todo lo cual pone de manifiesto la acuciante necesidad de reorientar el debate hacia el campo del Derecho. El presente artículo tiene por objeto analizar pormenorizadamente las consideraciones vertidas en este documento, formulando interrogantes sobre algunas de ellas, y poniendo en valor la conveniencia de articular un consenso multidisciplinar encabezado por los derechos humanos, en particular, de aquellos grupos más vulnerabl…
Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Protection of the Human Person: An International Law Analysis
2022
Providing a much needed study of the weapons paradox in the case of autonomous weapons, this book is a detailed and comprehensive account of the current debate over the use of autonomous weapons – should some form of regulation be applied or a total ban be enforced? How can compliance with existing rules be ensured? Can responsibility be properly allocated? To what extent do concepts such as ‘human dignity’ and ‘humanity’ provide legal guidance in coping with technology? This book tackles these momentous challenges and strives to provide sound answers, by elaborating on international law and proposing normative solutions for current and future human-machine interactions in this critical fie…
Introduction: Definition and Legal Sources
2019
The aim of the contribution is to define the concept of international military operations to which the rules of humanitarian law apply. The work also offers a definition of the sending state and the host state of these operations. It also identifies the normative sources governing these phenomena: from international humanitarian law ("ius in bello") to human rights law, UN standards, the agreements on the status of the forces deployed, but also internal legal systems.
Cooperation on Readmission in the Mediterranean Area and its Human Rights Implications
Questo lavoro analizza la ‘dimensione esterna’ delle politiche migratorie dell’Unione Europea e dei suoi Stati membri concentrandosi su strumenti, politiche e pratiche di cooperazione internazionale in materia di riammissione, rimpatrio e partenariato per la mobilità con Paesi terzi nell’area mediterranea. In particolare, lo scopo di questo studio è di analizzare criticamente le politiche europee e bilaterali in materia di riammissione, indagando da un lato il crescente ricorso a strumenti di cooperazione internazionale di tipo informale e di natura quasi-giuridica o politica, e dall’altro l’impatto di tali strumenti sul rispetto degli standard internazionali e sovranazionali di tutela dei …
Public Discourse on Human Trafficking in International Issue Arenas
2015
Abstract. The purpose of this study is to better understand how the complex problem of human trafficking is addressed in international debates. How the discussion about human trafficking develops and how it is debated ultimately influences how the decision-making process unfolds. In order to understand the formation of public policy and laws, therefore, it is important to study the debate that occurs prior to decision making. This analysis focuses on the narratives used by major, well-established human rights and political actors that argue for necessary actions to be undertaken — such as the formation of new policies and laws in the European Union — as an attempt to protect citizens of the…
Społeczne uzasadnienia dla ochrony praw jednostki
2015
W artykule przedstawione zostały koncepcje ochrony praw jednostki oparte na odwołaniu do pewnych procesów społecznych lub konkretnych uwarunkowań kulturowych. Przedstawione wizje ochrony jednostki (solidarystyczna, kommunitariańska oraz pragmatyczna Rorty'ego) odrzucały uzasadnienie ochrony praw człowieka oparte na legitymacji filozoficznej (oświeceniowy uniwersalizm praw jednostki) lub pozytywistycznej (treści aktów prawnych zawierające przepisy chroniące prawa człowieka). Wizja solidarystyczna podstawy dla ochrony praw jednostki widziała w rozwoju solidarności międzyludzkiej i komplikowania się więzów społecznych, skutkujących coraz większa indywidualizacja w ramach społeczeństwa. Komunit…
Problem konsensu w sprawie prawa do życia
2021
Wśród szczegółowych zagadnień w obszarze problematyki ochrony prawa do życia występuje zagadnienie konsensu, które jest dyskutowane głównie w kontekście legalizacji ustawodawstwa dotyczącego aborcji, eutanazji, sztucznego zapłodnienia, kary śmierci. Zagadnienie konsensu w kwestii prawa do życia jest kluczowym dla społecznych dyskusji na ten temat i wiąże się z rozumieniem natury prawa do życia, zarówno w perspektywie prawniczej, jak i moralnej. Problem ten ma także znaczenie dla przyjmowanych rozstrzygnięć w zakresie poszanowania życia ludzkiego oraz konkretnych działań i wyborów ludzi w tym obszarze. Niniejszy tekst jest próbą wyjaśnienia istoty konsensu w kwestii prawa do życia, wskazuje …