The Application of Human Rights Law to Private Sector Complicity in Governmental Corruption

Bibliographic Data

ID12186554
AuthorsCecily Rose (0000-0003-3307-8122, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume24
Issue3
Pages715-740
Publication date2011-08-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLeiden Journal of International Law (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0922-1565 • E-ISSN: 1478-9698
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0922156511000306
OpenAlexW2330832406
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited2

This article examines private sector complicity in governmental corruption that violates economic and social rights. Although banks and multinational corporations typically play critical roles in facilitating the diversion of public revenues away from the provision of social services, the link between the private sector, corruption, and human rights violations remains underexplored. This article therefore examines this relationship and explores the viability of a standard for assessing the complicity of the private sector in such violations of economic and social rights. Ultimately, the state-centred nature of the international human rights system limits the utility of any complicity standard for non-state actors

Business · Complicity · Corporate social responsibility · Economics · Human rights · International human rights law · Language change · Law and economics · Multinational corporation · Political science · Private sector · State (computer science · Corporate Law and Human Rights · Corruption and Economic Development · Human Rights and Development · Law

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