Growing global efforts to encourage responsible business conduct that respects human rights include steps to ensure access to effective remedies when breaches occur. In 2017, the European Commission asked the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) to collect evidence on such access in the EU Mem...
EMAS is a rigorous system, requiring continuous improvement in environmental performance through the identification of environmental impacts, implementation of policy, setting objectives and monitoring performance, legal compliance, communication and training all verified through mandatory inter...
The negative external effects of profit orientated businesses on the environment and society are most visible and destructive in developing countries, where compensation measures for adversely affected groups rarely exist and where high corruption rates often impede meaningful enforcement of exi...
This thesis explores the challenges posed by greater public demands placed upon transnational corporations to improve their human rights records. Its focus is placed on the oil industry because it epitomises the archetypical transnational business and raises particularly challenging human rights...