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‘What Does This Mean?’: How UK Companies Make Sense of Human Rights

Louise Obara

Business and Human Rights Journal, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 249 - 273

Swansea University Author: Louise Obara

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/bhj.2017.7

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How do companies understand and talk about human rights? Do they consider humanrights a moral, legal or political construct? What type of responsibility do they assumein respect of human rights (e.g. direct/indirect, narrow/broad)? Is the language andlabel of human rights used within day-to-day prac...

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Published in: Business and Human Rights Journal
ISSN: 2057-0198 2057-0201
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2017
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