Business, Human Rights and Sustainable Development - (International Studies in Human Rights) (Hardcover)

About the Book

Corporate businesses are expanding nationally and globally. Given this proliferation, this edited volume investigates and finds the inseparable nexus between businesses, human rights, and sustainable development. It will be a handy and useful resource book for corporate policymakers, government officials, legislators, academics, researchers, libraries, lawyers, judges, human rights specialists/activists, and anyone interested in the interaction between business, human rights, and sustainable development.

Book Synopsis

Corporate businesses are expanding nationally and globally. Given this proliferation, this edited book investigates and finds the inseparable nexus between businesses, human rights, and sustainable development. It comprehensively accommodates chapters on separate but interrelated aspects of this interface, providing collective cutting-edge information and critical analyses by outstanding scholars. Their intellectual contributions are invaluable to understand the role of business in protecting, preserving, and improving the human capital and natural resources for the future and fill up a void in the existing literature.
The book will be a handy and useful resource book for corporate policymakers, government officials, legislators, academics, researchers, libraries, lawyers, judges, human rights specialists/activists, and anyone interested in the interaction between business, human rights, and sustainable development.

About the Author

Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Ph.D., The University of Queensland, Australia, is Professor of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh. He is co-editor of International Trade Law and the WTO (Federation Press, 2013) and Human Rights after 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Reflections from the Global South (Brill Nijhoff, 2024).

M Rafiqul Islam is Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of International Trade Law of the WTO (Oxford, 2006), National Trials of International Crimes in Bangladesh: Transitional Justice as Reflected in Judgments (Brill Nijhoff, 2019), among others.