Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment

How can businesses and their shareholders avoid moral and legal complicity in human rights violations? This central and contemporary issue in the field of ethics, politics and law is of concern to intergovernmental organizations such as the UN and to many NGOs, as well as investors and employees. In this volume legal scholars and political philosophers identify and address the intertwined issues of moral and legal complicity in human rights violations by companies and those who invest in them. By describing the legal aspects of human rights violations in the corporate sphere, addressing the complicity of companies with regard to such norms and exploring the influence of investors, the book provides a thorough introduction to corporate social responsibility. Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment will set the research agenda on socially responsible investment for years to come.

Gro Nystuen is Chair of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global, and is dr. juris and Associate Professor at the University of Oslo and the Defence Staff University College and senior partner at the International Law and Policy Institute, Oslo. Andreas Follesdal is a member of the Council on Ethics for the.Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global, and is Professor and Director of Research at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University .of Oslo. Ola Mestad is Vice Chair of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global, and is Professor dr. juris at the Centre for European Law and Department of Petroleum and Energy Law, University of Oslo.