Report
Principles without justice: The corporate takeover of human rights
The purpose of this report is to critique the growing nexus between companies and recent human rights standards and codes: in order to apply human rights to the private sector, human rights are themselves being privatised. The ultimate consequence of this is to treat human rights as a risk to be managed in a total approach that begins with ‘authoritative’ standards, encompasses human rights impact assessments to assure on compliance, and ends with redress and grievance mechanisms, all under private control.