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Karp, Steven

doi:10.21971/p7s887

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“…Due to the absence of acceptance of a universal jurisdiction, MNCs ought to abide by the positive law that is by no means lower than well-established international standards, in whichever sovereign state they happen to be physically located. 235 They should also seek to adopt a legal compliance approach with relevant international standards. Where national law conflicts with international standards, the company is expected to fill the void.…”

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Chinese Multinational Companies in Africa: The Human Rights Discourse

2015

Afr J Legal Stud

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In this century, human rights have been transformed into a mainstream issue for multinational companies with a global presence. It is likely that a multipronged mechanism will imminently be demanded to ensure the accountability of economic actors responsible for human rights abuse. This paper places particular stress on the ostensibly prioritized objectives within international human rights arenas. A highly contentious debate revolves around whether China’s approach to ensuring human rights is in tandem with the West’s in helping Africa move forward or whether it will complicate the current playing field and even undermine the West’s long-standing credibility in relation to the protection of human rights. Relying heavily on instruments like the Alien Tort Statute (ats) has proved inadequate. A more promising path seems to be a comprehensive framework of hard law and soft law initiatives, along with other incentives.

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Chinese Multinational Companies in Africa: The Human Rights Discourse

2015

Afr J Legal Stud

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“…At the same time, through maintaining single member districts, citizens continue to choose their individual representatives, so MPs continue to have an incentive to serve as local advocates. 85 Under the former First-Past-the-Post electoral system, the Maori percentage in Parliament varied from 5 to 7.1 per cent. However, immediately after the introduction of the MMP system, the Maori percentage almost doubled to 13.3 per cent, as Maori MPs were elected from the party lists, as well as the general and Maori constituency seats.…”

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Indigenous Participation in Elective Bodies: The Maori in New Zealand

Xanthaki

O’Sullivan

2009

Int J Minor Group Rights

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Th e article argues that Maori political participation in New Zealand constitutes a positive example of how the current international standards on indigenous political participation can be implemented at the national level. Notwithstanding the weaknesses of the system and the challenges laying ahead, the combination of the Mixed Member Proportional electoral system, dedicated Maori seats and the establishment of the Maori Party have ensured a Maori voice in Parliament and have broadened the possibilities of eff ective indigenous participation in the political life of the state. Such state practice that implements the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples fi rmly confi rms the position of the Declaration within current international law.

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“…Hence the universalist approach is not a satisfactory basis for a sound theory of corporate human rights responsibility because it only covers one strand. The responsibility to respect which 'activates an inner sphere of moral judgement, and … requires a higher threshold of moral agency', 10 is not universal. Some, but by no means all, corporations will be able to pass that threshold and be assigned responsibility to respect human rights.…”

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David Karp, Responsibility for Human Rights, Transnational Corporations in Imperfect States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) pp 218.

Bernaz¹

2015

Bus. and hum. rights j.

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Chinese Multinational Companies in Africa: The Human Rights Discourse

Chinese Multinational Companies in Africa: The Human Rights Discourse

Indigenous Participation in Elective Bodies: The Maori in New Zealand

David Karp, Responsibility for Human Rights, Transnational Corporations in Imperfect States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) pp 218.

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