Global Business and Human Rights  - BMO0290

Assessment 1: Other

Activities providing opportunities for formative assessment will generally be integrated into the teaching and learning process and apply to all components of summative assessment.  The nature of the formative assessment tasks used will be at the discretion of the tutor, to include for example, workshop exercises, quizzes, group discussions. 

Other

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written assignment

As more and new corporate and trading actors emerge onto the global commercial scene, questions as to the relationship between business and human rights increasingly raise profound and intriguing problems of law and policy. This module, alert to historic developments, and drawing on principles of international law, investigates how national, regional and international initiatives to regulate the ever-changing dynamics of financial and cultural globalisation, are affecting respect for human rights in contemporary society. Your study will focus on some of the key dilemmas and opportunities arising from shifts in power dynamics towards non-state actors, enquiring as to how the UN’s negotiation and legal frameworks are adapting for the purpose of protecting rights and ensuring the viability of trading networks in the 21st century.

Huddersfield Business School

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BMO0290 - Global Business and Human Rights 

Global Business and Human Rights 

Express and justify an individual perspective on key discourses related to business and human rights.

Demonstrate critical understanding and familiarity with contemporary efforts at enforcing accountability of the business sector for actions affecting human rights.

Demonstrate ability to conduct research on the subject area and to identify the major academic literature and legal and policy documents pertaining to the role of organisations and businesses in supporting and enhancing human rights.

Be able to identify and explain how shifts in technology and business can impact upon the enjoyment of human rights.

Judge and critically explain the effectiveness of the key international initiatives undertaken with the aim of ensuring coherence between business and human rights.

Demonstrate critical understanding of the complex interrelationships between corporate and trading actors and human rights from the perspective of the international legal framework.