The Consequentialism of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights : Towards the Fulfilment of ‘Do No Harm’
Birchall, D. (2019). The Consequentialism of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights : Towards the Fulfilment of ‘Do No Harm’. Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, 24 (1), 28-39. Retrieved from http://ejbo.jyu.fi/pdf/ejbo_vol24_no1_pages_28-39.pdf
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In this paper I demonstrate that the
UN Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights (UNGPs) leans
heavily on consequentialism to
inform the corporate responsibility
to respect to human rights. Through
the conception of ‘human rights
impacts’, the UNGPs adopt a
standard of human rights-based
negative act consequentialism,
capturing any business act that
has the outcome of ‘removing or
reducing’ an individual’s enjoyment
of human rights. Such a lens is
necessary because deontological
human rights rules inadequately
capture the full scope of global
business harm to human rights.
Consequentialist responsibility
offers a much wider scope, of
particular use around systemic,
macro-level, harm, for example,
agri-business decisions that
harm the right to food. The great
pity is that this consequentialist
element goes largely ignored in
the literature. Through elucidation
and demonstration of the
consequentialist ethic therein, this
paper hopes to contribute to more
ambitious readings of the UNGPs.
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