Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)and Human Rights Accountability in Nigerian Petroleum Industry:From Voluntarism to Legal Positivism

• 作者: Prince Uche Amadi
• 来源期刊: 美中法律评论:英文版
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: human rights OBLIGATION corporate responsibility voluntarism corporate social responsibility
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（6）
• 页码范围: 250-260
• 页数: 11页
• 分类号: F27

摘要

The softness and non-bindingness of international law pose a hindrance in imposing binding human rightsobligations on corporations. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) seems to leverage on this normative authority ofsoftness of international law to prevent states from imposing human rights sanctions on corporations. This paperexplores the dynamics of CSR strategies in the Nigerian petroleum industry and assesses its effectiveness towardscorporate human rights responsibility. The paper makes a case for a new approach to CSR deployment for effectivecorporate human rights responsibility. The paper contends that the adoption of a National Action Plan (NAP) byNigeria towards the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights will change CSRparadigm from the domain of social voluntarism to the realm of legal positivism. By drawing inspiration from theseinternational guiding principles, the paper proposes for a national legal positivist approach to CSR in the oilindustry.