Soul Economy

Due to its increasing expansion, the corporate sector is arguably one - if not the - most important international influence on human rights. The positive response by the international business community to the recent release of the report by the UN’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, Prof Ruegge, is indicative of the increasing [...]

Corporations can lift human rights standards where these are inadequate and not in line with international expectations; or corporations can abuse them, often as an unintended side effect of operations, sometimes through negligence and in ‘worst case scenarios’, intentionally to obtain unfair advantage.
For some business executives the shift from assuming that human rights protection and [...]