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LECTURE SERIES
GLOBAL BUSINESS AND
THE CHALLENGE OF
HUMAN RIGHTS
PROFESSOR SALLY WHEELER
10 MAY 2017 | 6.30PM-7.30PM KEELE HALL | THE SALVIN ROOM
The UN guiding principles on Business and Human Rights,
were developed to safeguard developing countries which
for a number of reasons; lower wage costs, lower
infrastructure costs and often a shallower regulatory climate,
have become the new sites of production for Western goods
and raw materials. This lecture looks at how multi-national
enterprises MNEs have responded to these Principles; what
rights they assert that they respect, how they report on this
respect and the place that they accord respect for Human
Rights in their business structure.
countries that have
lower wage costs, lower
infrastructure costs and
often a shallower regulatory
climate, have become the
new sites of production
for Western goods and
raw materials
Sally Wheeler OBE MIRA, FAcSS is Professor of Law,
Business and Society and Head of the School of Law at
Queen’s University Belfast. She is a Fellow of the Academy
of Social Sciences and was elected to Royal Irish Academy
in 2013. She has a wide range of academic interests and
publications from Victorian Studies to Corporate Law.
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