Routledge Corporate Human Rights Violations: Legal Action & Accountability

This comprehensive analysis examines the historical, political and legal contexts driving current demands from NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for human rights violations. The book evaluates existing accountability mechanisms and argues that these demands represent a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have shaped politics and law since the 1970s. Part of the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, it offers a critical framework for understanding how struggles for hegemony intersect with corporate responsibility, providing scholars, policymakers and advocates with essential insights into the legal pathways available for challenging corporate misconduct on a global scale.