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African Human Rights Law Journal, 2021
It is a daunting task to discern between the several debates within and surrounding the corporate... more It is a daunting task to discern between the several debates within and surrounding the corporate social responsibility and the business and human rights movements. At the basic level of objectives, for instance, questions arise as to which movement is substantively or comparatively broader in scope. In contributing to the debates, this article investigates their evolution and the intersections within the fields. It finds both movements to be inextricably-linked regulatory movements directed at establishing accountability for the impact of human rights violations. Using the human rights due diligence requirement elaborated by the influential United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as a springboard, the article integrates the shared objective of the two inseparable movements, describing for scholarship and practice, the ambit of a victim-centred accountability remedial framework for business-related human rights abuses.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Law in Africa
The international community has embraced the concept of sustainable development since the adoptio... more The international community has embraced the concept of sustainable development since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention in 1972. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has used the platform of the World Heritage Convention (the Convention) together with its intergovernmental framework of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) to seek the protection and conservation of the natural and cultural heritage in crucial contribution to the sustainable development movement. In other words, by identifying, protecting, conserving and transmitting to present and future generations irreplaceable cultural and natural heritage properties of outstanding universal value (OUV), the Convention contributes to the wellbeing of people and sustainability generally. It has been demonstrated that strengthening the dimensions of sustainable development brings benefits to heritage properties and support their OUV, if carefully integrated within their conservation...
The fact that Africa is one of the worst performing regions in global audits about long-term deve... more The fact that Africa is one of the worst performing regions in global audits about long-term development trends is longer news. The continent has repeatedly missed targets set by the United Nations and there are concerns it might just be left behind in the attainment of the latest 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development set by world leaders in 2015. With a view to complementing states’ responsibilities towards the provision of public goods and social services useful to actualize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa, this article interrogates the nature of multinational corporations (MNCs) and juxtaposing the non-state actor responsibilities within wider societal contexts with state duties in advancing the SDGs. The article not only sets the tone for a “new corporate social responsibility” in terms of improved pursuit of sustainability within business communities in corporate Africa, it also recommends workable measures, integrating progressive roles for both the state and ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Law in Africa
Journal of African Law, 2017
It is usually assumed that there is sufficient legislation to regulate the Nigerian business comm... more It is usually assumed that there is sufficient legislation to regulate the Nigerian business community and combat corporate irresponsibility and that the challenge lies in lackadaisical enforcement by regulators. This article queries this assumption and analyses the corporate social responsibility (CSR) regulatory landscape in corporate Nigeria. It depicts a bleak picture of weak regulation, faulty legal transplantation of foreign principles, a lackadaisical attitude to enforcement, double operational standards from multinational enterprises, and incoherence and policy disparity between CSR regulatory provisions in primary legislation on the one hand and their subsidiary laws on the other. It argues that the challenge lies in faulty and disjointed legislation grossly undermined by fallacious legal transplantation. The article concludes by offering an agenda for the harmonization of the disjointed CSR framework in highlighted primary and subsidiary legislation, in line with best inte...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
African Human Rights Law Journal, 2021
It is a daunting task to discern between the several debates within and surrounding the corporate... more It is a daunting task to discern between the several debates within and surrounding the corporate social responsibility and the business and human rights movements. At the basic level of objectives, for instance, questions arise as to which movement is substantively or comparatively broader in scope. In contributing to the debates, this article investigates their evolution and the intersections within the fields. It finds both movements to be inextricably-linked regulatory movements directed at establishing accountability for the impact of human rights violations. Using the human rights due diligence requirement elaborated by the influential United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as a springboard, the article integrates the shared objective of the two inseparable movements, describing for scholarship and practice, the ambit of a victim-centred accountability remedial framework for business-related human rights abuses.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Law in Africa
The international community has embraced the concept of sustainable development since the adoptio... more The international community has embraced the concept of sustainable development since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention in 1972. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has used the platform of the World Heritage Convention (the Convention) together with its intergovernmental framework of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) to seek the protection and conservation of the natural and cultural heritage in crucial contribution to the sustainable development movement. In other words, by identifying, protecting, conserving and transmitting to present and future generations irreplaceable cultural and natural heritage properties of outstanding universal value (OUV), the Convention contributes to the wellbeing of people and sustainability generally. It has been demonstrated that strengthening the dimensions of sustainable development brings benefits to heritage properties and support their OUV, if carefully integrated within their conservation...
The fact that Africa is one of the worst performing regions in global audits about long-term deve... more The fact that Africa is one of the worst performing regions in global audits about long-term development trends is longer news. The continent has repeatedly missed targets set by the United Nations and there are concerns it might just be left behind in the attainment of the latest 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development set by world leaders in 2015. With a view to complementing states’ responsibilities towards the provision of public goods and social services useful to actualize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa, this article interrogates the nature of multinational corporations (MNCs) and juxtaposing the non-state actor responsibilities within wider societal contexts with state duties in advancing the SDGs. The article not only sets the tone for a “new corporate social responsibility” in terms of improved pursuit of sustainability within business communities in corporate Africa, it also recommends workable measures, integrating progressive roles for both the state and ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Law in Africa
Journal of African Law, 2017
It is usually assumed that there is sufficient legislation to regulate the Nigerian business comm... more It is usually assumed that there is sufficient legislation to regulate the Nigerian business community and combat corporate irresponsibility and that the challenge lies in lackadaisical enforcement by regulators. This article queries this assumption and analyses the corporate social responsibility (CSR) regulatory landscape in corporate Nigeria. It depicts a bleak picture of weak regulation, faulty legal transplantation of foreign principles, a lackadaisical attitude to enforcement, double operational standards from multinational enterprises, and incoherence and policy disparity between CSR regulatory provisions in primary legislation on the one hand and their subsidiary laws on the other. It argues that the challenge lies in faulty and disjointed legislation grossly undermined by fallacious legal transplantation. The article concludes by offering an agenda for the harmonization of the disjointed CSR framework in highlighted primary and subsidiary legislation, in line with best inte...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000