Business and human rights in South East Asia: risk and the regulatory turn

1. Whither corporate social responsibility and the UN guiding principles on business and human rights in ASEAN? / Thomas Thomas -- 2. Business and human rights challenges in ASEAN : the role and modalities of the state / Delphia Lim and Geetanjali Mukherjee -- 3. Why gender matters for the business and human rights agenda in Southeast Asia / Kathryn Dovey -- 4. Children's rights and business : a framework to combat ICT-enabled child abuse in Southeast Asia / Philip Cook, Bindu Sharma and Chris Yeomans -- 5. Regulating social and environmental risk in ASEAN financial integration : the Xayaburi dam project in Lao PDR and Thai banks / Daniel King -- 6. Corporate sustainability and palm oil industries in Southeast Asia : a principled pragmatism / Puvan Selvanathan and Vani Sathisan -- 7. Human rights risks amidst the 'gold-rush' : Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam / Mahdev Mohan -- 8. Tigers, dragons, and elephants on the move in Myanmar : the case for responsible investment and three recommendations for Asian leaders / Mark Hodge and Salil Tripathi -- 9. The new frontier : due diligence and developing and implementing human rights audits in Southeast Asia / James Kallman -- 10. Making human rights a core business practice : the finance sector's role in the promotion and protection of human rights / Kerri-Ann O'Neill -- 11. Rule-making for rights protection in the Philippines : the judiciary's new powers for environmental regulation and access to remedy for business-related rights abuses / Bobbie Sta. Maria -- 12. The reality of remedy in mining and community relations : an anonymous case-study from Southeast Asia / Deanna Kemp and John R. Owen -- 13. Right to development : a path to securing more effective remedies? / Cynthia Morel.

Business and human rights has emerged as a distinct field within the corporate governance movement. The endorsement by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in 2011 reinforces the State's duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including business; the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; and greater access by victims to effective remedy, both judicial and non-judicial. This book draws on the UN Guiding Principles and recent national plans of action, to provide an overview of relevant developme