This book investigates how human rights law can be applied to corporate entities. To date there
have been insufficient international legal mechanisms to bring corporations to justice for
their misconduct abroad. The book argues that rather than trying to solve the problem locally
an international approach to corporate human rights compliance needs to be sought to prevent
future corporate human rights abuses. Implementing effective and enforceable human rights
compliance policies at corporate level allows businesses to prevent negative human rights
impacts such as loss of revenue high litigation costs and damage to reputation. By considering
human rights to be an inherent part of their business strategy corporations will be well
equipped to meet national and regional business and human rights standards which will
inevitably be implemented in the next few years. This approach in turn also furthers the
fundamental aim of international human rights law.
