Business and Human Rights

This is not a book about sustainable business. Moving far beyond greenwashing, Business and Human Rights: From Knowledge to Responsibility applies a pioneering transdisciplinary lens (integrating international law, environmental science, and Doughnut Economics) to expose the structural cost externalisation of global capitalism. Part I establishes the normative framework toward binding corporate accountability. Part II details global violations across five continents, exposing forced labour, toxic concealment, and land grabbing. The volume culminates in a searing critique of the modern governance laboratory, dissecting how corporate capital and military technology converge to profit from systemised occupation and institutional impunity. Rejecting passive neutrality, this textbook serves as both a rigorous analytical tool and an ethical catalyst. It maps a resilient web of scholar-activists and social movements, charting a concrete path for organised resistance against systems of oppression and exploitation.