Racism as a Human Rights Risk
Reconsidering the Corporate ‘Responsibility to Respect’ Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13019292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erika George (0000-0002-0057-8932, Tanner Research (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 576-583 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business and Human Rights Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2057-0198 • E-ISSN: 2057-0201 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/bhj.2021.41 |
| OpenAlex | W3198948729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Darnella Frazer, a teenage witness to a fatal police encounter, used social media to share her cell phone video footage capturing a white police officer casually kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed Black man named George Floyd for nearly nine minutes. Her video rapidly went viral, sparking civil unrest across the United States (US) and protests around the world. 1 Independent experts of the Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council came together to issue a joint statement condemning ‘systemic racism’ and ‘state sponsored racial violence’ in the US. 2 George Floyd was not the first unarmed Black person to die in police custody under questionable circumstances, 3 but his murder motivated many to confront the reality of racism in American society. A broad section of the business community reacted to the civil unrest in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd with solidarity statements denouncing racism and pledges to promote racial equality. 4 Brands rushed to embrace the previously untouchable #BlackLivesMatter movement in marketing campaigns. Business leaders expressed interested in evaluating how particular policies and practices operate in ways that serve to promote racial discrimination or perpetuate racial inequality. 5
Commit · Criminology · Human rights · Officer · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Solidarity · Unrest · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Race, History, and American Society · South African History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |