Are Human Rights Any Business of Business? Corporate Behaviour from a Human Rights Perspective

“Is there an indirect human rights responsibility of corporations that arises from the human rights obligations of their home states? And second, is there a human rights responsibility of corporations themselves, thus a direct human rights responsibility of corporations regardless of the international commitments of their home states?”
This paper outlines the evolution of the Corporate Social Responsibility model, describes the international conventions which exist and gives an introduction to responding to the argument ‘human rights are no business of business’. Read