Podcast

Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights: Have Ten Years of Voluntarism Worked? - Audio

Dame Hazel Genn (Dean of the Faculty of Laws), Dr Saladin Meckled-Garcia (Director of the Institute for Human Rights)

Whilst international corporations are taken to court for complicity in human rights abuses and the trade in child labour and sweatshops is still a scourge throughout the world, this event asks whether the international approach to corporate social responsibility of the last ten years has worked. The approach of the last decade has focused primarily on voluntary measures taken by companies and enterprises, and finds expression in codes of conduct …