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  1. Calculated Risk
    Economic versus Human Rights Requirements of Corporate Risk Assessments
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, Berlin

    Human rights risk assessments help corporations to identify potential adverse effects of their business activities on human rights in order to avoid them, reduce them or compensate those affected. Corporations differ in their understanding of what... more

    Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, Bibliothek
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    Human rights risk assessments help corporations to identify potential adverse effects of their business activities on human rights in order to avoid them, reduce them or compensate those affected. Corporations differ in their understanding of what constitutes a “risk”: a corporate risk assessment is about potentially adverse effects on returns on investments or operations. This analysis outlines the different concepts of risk in a human rights and in a business context and illustrates the potential impact this discrepancy can have in practice by using the example of a corporate risk assessment in the Colombian coal sector. From this analysis the Institute derives criteria for possible self-regulatory action on the part of state and business, which can make a human rights risk assessment a mandatory requirement for enterprises.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783946499183
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    Series: Analysis
    Subjects: Unternehmen; Multinationales Unternehmen; Menschenrecht; Schutz; Risikoanalyse; Menschenrechtsverletzung
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (26 Seiten)
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  2. Calculated Risk
    Economic versus Human Rights Requirements of Corporate Risk Assessments
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, Berlin

    Human rights risk assessments help corporations to identify potential adverse effects of their business activities on human rights in order to avoid them, reduce them or compensate those affected. Corporations differ in their understanding of what... more

    Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, Bibliothek
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    Fachinformationsverbund Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde
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    German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Bibliothek
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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    Hochschule Schmalkalden, Cellarius Bibliothek
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    Human rights risk assessments help corporations to identify potential adverse effects of their business activities on human rights in order to avoid them, reduce them or compensate those affected. Corporations differ in their understanding of what constitutes a “risk”: a corporate risk assessment is about potentially adverse effects on returns on investments or operations. This analysis outlines the different concepts of risk in a human rights and in a business context and illustrates the potential impact this discrepancy can have in practice by using the example of a corporate risk assessment in the Colombian coal sector. From this analysis the Institute derives criteria for possible self-regulatory action on the part of state and business, which can make a human rights risk assessment a mandatory requirement for enterprises.

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Volltext (kostenfrei)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783946499183
    Other identifier:
    Series: Analysis
    Subjects: Unternehmen; Multinationales Unternehmen; Menschenrecht; Schutz; Risikoanalyse; Menschenrechtsverletzung
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (26 Seiten)
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis