Human Rights Responsibilities in the Digital Age

Human Rights Responsibilities in the Digital Age
Author: Jonathan Andrew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509938842

This book examines the tangled responsibilities of states, companies, and individuals surrounding human rights in the digital age. Digital technologies have a huge impact – for better and worse – on human lives; while they can clearly enhance some human rights, they also facilitate a wide range of violations. States are expected to implement efficient measures against powerful private companies, but, at the same time, they are drawn to technologies that extend their own control over citizens. Tech companies are increasingly asked to prevent violations committed online by their users, yet many of their business models depend on the accumulation and exploitation of users' personal data. While civil society has a crucial part to play in upholding human rights, it is also the case that individuals harm other individuals online. All three stakeholders need to ensure that technology does not provoke the disintegration of human rights. Bringing together experts from a range of disciplines, including law, international relations, and journalism, this book provides a detailed analysis of the impact of digital technologies on human rights, which will be of interest to academics, research students and professionals concerned by this issue.

Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities

Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities
Author: K. Buhmann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230294618

This book challenges the separation between CSR and law. It also demonstrates that BRHR may be gradually separating from CSR through emphasis on state obligations. Authors from around the world discuss how businesses engage in CSR and human rights, and how governments and intergovernmental organisations may support business in taking responsibility

Human Rights Obligations of Business

Human Rights Obligations of Business
Author: Surya Deva
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107036879

This book critically evaluates the Ruggie Framework and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and investigates the normative foundations as well as the nature, extent and enforcement of corporate obligations for the realisation of human rights.

Advancing International Human Rights Law Responsibilities of Development NGOs

Advancing International Human Rights Law Responsibilities of Development NGOs
Author: Noam Schimmel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2020-10-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030502708

This book explores the potential responsibilities to respect, protect and fulfill international human rights law (IHRL) of a particular class of non-state actors: non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It calls for NGOs pursuing development to respect and fulfill the human right of genocide survivors to reparative justice in Rwanda. It argues that NGOs have social and moral responsibilities to respect and fulfill IHRL, and for greater accountability for them to do so. The book focuses on those NGOs advancing development in a post genocide transitional justice context acting simultaneously in partnership with state governments, as proxies and agents for these governments, and providing essential public goods and social services as part of their development remit. It defines development as a process of expanding realization of social, economic, and cultural rights addressing food security, economic empowerment/poverty reduction, healthcare, housing, education, and other fundamental human needs while integrating these alongside the expansion of freedoms and protections afforded by civil and political rights. It uses post genocide Rwanda as a case study to illustrate how respect and fulfillment of the IHRL pertaining to reparative justice are hindered by failing to hold NGOs responsible for IHRL. Consequently, this results in discrimination against, marginalization, and the disadvantaging of survivors of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi and violations of their human rights.

The Human Right to Health

The Human Right to Health
Author: Jonathan Wolff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0393063356

A philosophy professor discusses the right to health and explores both views on the issue including the idea that it is a fundamental right along the lines of free speech and also that it is an issue of impractical overreach.

Being Responsible

Being Responsible
Author: Mary Small
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1404810528

Explains what responsibility is and ways to be responsible.

Rights and Responsibilities

Rights and Responsibilities
Author: Great Britain. Ministry of Justice
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780101757720

This green paper launches a public consultation across the UK. The Government intends to involve all parts of society in discussions about the fundamental arguments for and against a new Bill of rights and responsibilities as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the individual components of any such Bill.