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The Role of the African Human Rights System in advancing Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Industries
Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/82574 The Role of the African Human Rights System in advancing Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Industries Killander, Magnus chairmanokoloise@yahoo.com Okoloise, Macaulay Chairman Business and human rights Corporate accountability Extractive industries African human rights system UCTD Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2021. For over a century, corporations engaged in the extractive industries in Africa have operated without ethical rules. They have been notoriously fingered for rampant environmental, labour, health and human rights violations, including land despoliation, forced displacement, environmental pollution, cultural infringements and, sometimes, deaths. While the responsibility for regulating companies and protecting human and peoples’ rights primarily rests with states, they have often been unable or unwilling to do so effectively. Amidst these persisting challenges, the phenomenal rise of transnational corporations in the global economy have rendered more complex the gaps in global governance by presenting new challenges that make territorial regulation by single countries impracticable. While victims groan, contestations about the human rights obligations of corporations have allowed extractive and other companies to fly below the radar of accountability; thereby, enabling extractive businesses to ride roughshod over communities and the environment. After several United Nations-led initiatives to address the adverse impacts of corporations, they have proven insufficient to hold companies accountable for violations in the extractive sector. This thesis, therefore, is a dispassionate attempt to explore the role of the African regional human rights system as an important complementary level of normative and institutional governance for regulating abusive corporate conduct and advancing human rights accountability in the extractive industries. It adopts an African approach to corporate human rights accountability in critically evaluating the contours of the corporate accountability discourse. It problematises the near-total reliance on inadequate domestic action in host states for regulating powerful corporate conglomerates in this age of globalisation and highlights the limits of extraterritorial regulation by home states in addressing transborder abuses. After a careful assessment, it finds that African human rights norms and regional mechanisms can play a key part in regulating abusive corporate practices and protecting the human rights and environmental wellbeing of resource-rich communities affected by the extractive industries in Africa. German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - DAAD) Centre for Human Rights LLD Unrestricted 2021-11-05T05:32:51Z 2021-11-05T05:32:51Z 2021-12-10 2021 Thesis * D2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/82574 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Business and human rights Corporate accountability Extractive industries African human rights system UCTD The Role of the African Human Rights System in advancing Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Industries |
| title | The Role of the African Human Rights System in advancing Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Industries |
| title_full | The Role of the African Human Rights System in advancing Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Industries |
| title_fullStr | The Role of the African Human Rights System in advancing Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Industries |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Role of the African Human Rights System in advancing Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Industries |
| title_short | The Role of the African Human Rights System in advancing Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Industries |
| title_sort | role of the african human rights system in advancing corporate accountability in the extractive industries |
| topic | Business and human rights Corporate accountability Extractive industries African human rights system UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/82574 |