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Bridging Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility: Pathways to a Sustainable Global Society
Human rights are a set of principles that acknowledge and safeguard the inherent worth and respect of every individual. Human rights regulate the behavior and interactions of individuals within society, as well as their interactions with the State and the corresponding responsibilities that the State has towards them.
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Towards Equity and Inclusion: Legal Exploration for Inclusive Business Practices Integrating CSR and Disability Rights in India
Anuttama Ghose (Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT-World Peace University, Pune, India), Hartej Singh Kochher (School of Law, Galgotias University, India), and S. M. Aamir Ali (Symbiosis Law School, Symbiosis International University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-2325-0.ch006
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This chapter delves into the intricate interplay between human rights, corporate social responsibility, and global sustainability, focusing on the nexus of disability rights and inclusive business practices. While examining international agreements and Indian domestic laws, the research uncovers challenges in implementing regulations that mandate fair treatment and prejudice eradication for individuals with disabilities. In parallel, it scrutinizes the complexities of inclusive business practices, a cornerstone of CSR, emphasizing the need for substantial overhauls in corporate culture and policies. It also explores gaps in political theory, analyzes capabilities theories and social mobilization, and advocates for a strategic approach aligning CSR with inclusive practices for authentic inclusivity and equitable employment opportunities. This chapter further analyzes the international and domestic legal frameworks pertaining to disability rights and argues for a more comprehensive legal framework in alignment with CSR policies.
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Human Rights in the Innovative Sustainable Socially Responsible Society (ISSRS)
Human rights are essential freedoms and guarantees to which every individual is entitled by virtue of his or her existence. They protect the dignity, equality, and respect of human beings, regardless of their nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, or any other characteristic. Human rights like the right to life, the right to freedom from torture and discrimination, the right to freedom of expression, the right to work, education and access to healthcare, are intended to guarantee that every individual can live freely, express themselves, make decisions about their lives and participate fully in society without being oppressed or experiencing injustice.
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Disproportional Influence and Vulnerability Infringement in Human Trafficking: Ethico-Economic Implications
The human rights approach recognizes that human trafficking is a violation of rights and views the trafficked person as someone in need of protection and services rather than as a criminal. A human rights approach to trafficking means putting victims at the centre of anti-trafficking policies by prioritizing the protection of their rights. Human Rights-oriented approach to trafficking stands on the notion that human trafficking is both a cause and effect of human rights violations in many societies. As the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson alleges, “trafficking is a cause of human rights violation because it violates fundamental human rights, such as the right to life, the right to dignity and security, the right to just and favorable conditions of work, the right to health, the right to equality and the right to be recognized as a person before the law (UNHR, 2002). It is both a consequence and effect because it is rooted in poverty, inequality and discrimination.
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The Gatekeepers of Cyberspace: Surveillance, Control, and Internet Regulation in Brazil
Human rights are rights and freedoms to which all are entitled, no matter who they are or where they live.
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Unpacking the Dilemma of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice by Women in the Ghanaian Context
Human rights are described as involving the basic or fundamental rights and freedoms which are based on a shared value system including equality, fairness, dignity, independence, and respect for one another; the values here are defined and protected though the system of law.
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Unlocking the Liberation Doctrine in Media Literacy and Higher Education
The creator-granted or unalienable rights of all human beings for freedom, sustenance, health, shelter, education, and literacy as well as belonging and safety.
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Reframing Human Trafficking to Enhance Multidisciplinary Collaboration: A Technology-Focused Application
A term used to describe the inherent rights all humans are entitled to, such as access to housing, education, medical needs, food, etc.
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Cultural Context of Human Rights Violations Against Children in Asian Countries: Why Do Children Become Easy Targets? Human Rights Violations in India
These are inalienable rights that are associated with the social, economic, and cultural survival of individuals, irrespective of sex, creed, and race in a society.
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From E-Governance Towards E-Societal Management
Rights defined in the UN Declaration of 1948, updated by similar international documents.
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Tourism and Water: A Human Rights Perspective to Enhance Sustainable Tourism
Should be defined as a set of moral principles created to protect and regulate human relations.
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Dignity and Engagement for Making Bioethics of Displacement Real: Praxis II
The fundamental rights and freedoms that every person should have. In practice, there is one core human right far away from being satisfied: the power to prevent and avoid ill-treatment by any government.
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Integrating Human Rights, Equity, and Social Justice in Health Policies in America and Nigeria: Controversies, Problems, and Way Forward
The right to health includes access to timely, acceptable, and affordable healthcare of appropriate quality. So, there has been increasing recognition of the value of human rights approach to the understanding and practice of public health issues over the past decade.
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Human Rights Abuses Against Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria: Investigating Media Reportage
This refers to the benefits every human being is entitled to by the reason of the fact that the person in question is of the human race. It cannot be worked for or withdrawn by other persons from them.
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Dark Tourism and Human Rights: A Philosophical Quandary?
Is a set of rights which belonging to every person has oriented to protect its integrity.
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The International Importance of Civil and Political Rights
The political rights and civil liberties recognized by the international community as inalienable and valid for individuals in all countries under their humanity.
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Adjuncting in Higher Education: Challenges and Recommendations
Human rights in the workplace refer to a work environment that is free from victimization. This can include intimidation, bullying by coworkers, being denied a promotion, being moved to a position to lower responsibility, being refused further contract work or dismissal from employment (hrcouncil.ca, 2016).
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A Critical Interrogation of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act 2013 Against the Backdrop of the Human Rights Provisions of the Nigerian Constitution
Human rights refer to rights which are innate and belong to every person. They are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every member of the society from birth until death.
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The Main Principles of Democracy and Its Role in Global Development
The political rights and civil liberties recognized by the international community as inalienable and valid for individuals in all countries by virtue of their humanity.
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Ethics of New Technologies
Those rights that all humans have simply by reason of being human, without regard to an individual government unit’s laws.
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A Youth Perspective to Participation and Local Governance in Zimbabwe's Post-Fast Track Land Reform Farms
Moral principles or norms that describe standards of human life including rights and freedoms entitled to every human being.
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Transitioning Governments and Laws
Rights that are deemed inherent to any human being on the face of the earth regardless of their country of origin.
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The Nexus of War, Violence, and Rights: A History of War-Torn Afghanistan
The basic freedoms that all people should have, for example, the right to say what they think and to travel freely.
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Human Capital Formation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Role of Women
The basic rights which it is generally considered all people should have, such as justice and the freedom to say what you think.
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Learning Problem-Solving Strategies in Virtual Worlds That Encourage People to Respect Human Rights
The right to have access to the essential needs of human survival such as the 30 human rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948.
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Sub-Saharan Africa and the Politics of Same-Sex Relationships: Human Rights vs. Criminal Law
These are standards that recognise and protect the dignity of all human beings. Human rights govern how individual human beings live in society and with each other, as well as their relationship with the State.
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Rule of Law as a Basis for the Establishment of a Constitutional State
The political rights and civil liberties recognized by the international community as inalienable and valid for individuals in all countries by virtue of their humanity.
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Global Migration, Discrimination, and the Internationalization of Higher Education
Freedoms and benefits that, according to modern values, any person can claim “as his right” in the society in which he lives. These rights are defined by international human rights norms.
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Tourism, Poverty, and Human Rights: An Unspeakable Relationship
Comprise basic rights that belong invariably to every person who is a human being.
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Entrepreneurship: Higher Education and Gender – Equity and Access for Inclusive Development
Rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.
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Leave No One Behind, Not Even the Animals: Implications for the New Meat Alternatives
Norms and behavior protected as normal or through the legal system on the basis of certain moral principles.
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Human Rights Protection in Occupied Territories
Human rights are rights any human has, regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status.
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Norms of Human Rights in the Ancient Near Eastern and Caucasian Civilizations
The concept of fundamental rights as a natural right is ancient. According to John Locke, fundamental rights are universal, early-state rights. Locke distinguished three property rights: Life, Liberty, and Estate. He noted that every human being is free from birth and has the same rights as other human beings. The state is responsible to protect these rights. In case of their restriction, the citizen has the right to resist, which should be reflected in the public contract.
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Workplace Discrimination During International Work Assignments
Dignity and freedom protection rules without any discrimination.
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Government Budgets and Human Rights: An Expenditure-Based Approach for OECD Countries
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.
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In an Age of Violence, Minorities, and Their Empowerment: An Indian Perspective
Human rights are ethical conventions and standards of behavior that are identified as the inalienable basic rights of any humankind.
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The Universality of the Human Rights Principles
The political rights and civil liberties recognized by the international community as inalienable and valid for individuals in all countries by virtue of their humanity.
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Models of Competences for the Real and Digital World
Are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx ).
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The Power of Words: A Preliminary Critical Analysis of Concepts Used in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Privileges that all human beings should have regardless of social situation, identity, or racialized background. Such privileges include such things as a right to housing, health care, healthy food, and an ability to communicate in one’s preferred language.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Vulnerable Groups: Refugees and Labor Migrants-Based View
The certain rules that protect the dignity and freedom of each individual. Fundamental rights form and represent the basis of the legal status of each individual.
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Advancing Arguments for Freedom From Discrimination: The Case for Sexual Minorities
The rights that all people have by virtue of being human; also known as rights which attach automatically to all persons from birth.
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Trafficking in Women and Children in Bangladesh: Laws and Strategies for Prevention
Human rights are the rights that all people enjoy from their birth until death. These rights vary from the most basic i.e. the right to life to those that are necessary to lead a standard life, such as food, education, job, health, and liberty.
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Crossfire and Violation of Human Rights in Bangladesh: A Critical Review
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. Every single citizen is equally entitled to human rights without discrimination (United Nations, 2016 AU94: The in-text citation "United Nations, 2016" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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Mobile Phone Technology for ALL: Towards Reducing the Digital Divide
Rights afforded to all human beings regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, language, gender, or any other status including disability.
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The Christian Perspective on Worldly Practices in 21st Century Nigeria
Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected in municipal and international law. Put differently, human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. They apply regardless of where you are from, what you believe or how you choose to live your life. These basic rights are based on shared values like dignity, fairness, equality, respect and independence.
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Identifiable Challenges as Global Complexities: Globalization, Gender Violence, and Statelessness
They are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. Human rights belong to every human being regardless of sex, race, nationality, socio-economic group, political opinion, sexual orientation or any other status.
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COVID-19 and the Livelihoods of the Migrant Workers: A Study in Rural West Bengal, India
These are the rights that is believed to belong to each and every person.
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The New Paths of Fundamental Rights in the 21st Century: Globalization and Knowledge in a Digital Age as a Proposal
Are a set of legal rules that recognize to individuals in general fundamental rights and freedoms inherent to all “humanity” that, by their nature, must be secured before the States. These rights are characterized by their qualities of universality, abstraction, essentiality, inalienability and priority over positive law. The human rights international law was developed after World War II and includes different rules regarding the sources from which they originate and the universal or regional scope in which they apply. It is a special and autonomous branch of international law, of customary and conventional origin, linked to the progressive affirmation of the individual's international subjectivity.
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Corporate Social Responsibility: A Business Contribution to Sustainable Development
According to this concept, every human being—as such, and regardless of his social status—has rights inherent in his personality, irrevocable and sacred, and therefore contradictory in all circumstances of society and authority.
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The Role of Mobile Learning in Promoting Literacy and Human Rights for Women and Girls
The idea of human rights recognized today was established with the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 written after the Second World War. The primary intent of the document was to prevent a recurrence of the human rights travesties that occurred during WWII. However, the UDHR also provides for the recognition of 30 human rights, including the right to education.
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