Children's Rights and Business
Governing Obligations and Responsibility

A comprehensive legal inquiry into children's rights and business, drawing on insights from various disciplines, enriched by in-depth case studies.

Gamze Erdem Türkelli (Author)

9781108484169, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 February 2020

392 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.67 kg

'Business greatly impacts on children's Iives. Nevertheless, while business and human rights matters have been discussed for four decades, children's rights only entered this scene rather recently. In her lucid book, Gamze Erdem Turkelli appealingly unlocks the developments involved, both in theory and in practice. Cases from Uzbekistan, the DRC and Uganda finely illustrate child rights aspects that have come up in the cotton sector, mineral extraction, and infrastructure projects.' Karin Arts, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Children's Rights and Business: Governing Obligations and Responsibility is a comprehensive legal inquiry into children's rights and business. Relying on insights from various disciplines, the book illustrates the need for a children-focused inquiry on business and human rights. An analysis of the norm legalization process around the regulation of business and human rights, particularly of children's rights follows the inquiry into existing hard and soft law regulatory frameworks on children's rights and business. The book goes on to evaluate the promise of these frameworks in light of globalized business transactions through the lens of in-depth case illustrations on children's rights in cotton and mineral supply chains and children's rights in large-scale energy and transport investment projects. Finally, it concludes with a normative outlook on governing the children's rights obligations of businesses and responsibility when violations occur, drawing on global governance approaches.

Part I: 1. Children's rights obligations and business
Part II. Case Illustrations: A Brief Introduction: 2. Children's rights in supply chains
3. Children's rights in investment projects
Part III: 4. A polycentric governance model of children's rights and business
5. Polycentric governance of responsibility
6. Children's rights, multiple duty-bearers and polycentric governance: summary conclusions.

Subject Areas: Banking law [LNPB], Financial law [LNP], International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International law [LB], Law [L], Human rights [JPVH], International relations [JPS], Political science & theory [JPA]