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Putting the French Duty of Vigilance Law in Context: Towards Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations in the Global South?

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

Human Rights Review 22 (1):109-127 (2020)

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Actors in private food governance: the legitimacy of retail standards and multistakeholder initiatives with civil society participation. [REVIEW]Doris Fuchs, Agni Kalfagianni & Tetty Havinga - 2011 - Agriculture and Human Values 28 (3):353-367.details Democratic legitimacy is rarely associated with private governance. After all, private actors are not legitimized through elections by a demos. Instead of abandoning democratic principles when entering the private sphere of governance, however, this article argues in favour of employing alternative criteria of democracy in assessments. Specifically, this article uses the criteria of participation, transparency and accountability to evaluate the democratic legitimacy of private food retail governance institutions. It pursues this evaluation of the democratic legitimacy of these institutions against the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 22 citations
A forest of evidence: third-party certification and multiple forms of proof—a case study of oil palm plantations in Indonesia. [REVIEW]Laura Silva-Castañeda - 2012 - Agriculture and Human Values 29 (3):361-370.details In recent years, new forms of transnational regulation have emerged, filling the void created by the failure of governments and international institutions to effectively regulate transnational corporations. Among the variety of initiatives addressing social and environmental problems, a growing number of certification systems have appeared in various sectors, particularly agrifood. Most initiatives rely on independent third-party certification to verify compliance with a standard, as it is seen as the most credible route for certification. The effects of third-party audits, however, still (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 13 citations
The Dual Nature of Transparency: Corporatization and Democratization of Global Production Networks.Sabrina Zajak & Christian Scheper - 2019 - In Stefan Berger & Dimitrij Owetschkin (eds.), Contested Transparencies, Social Movements and the Public Sphere: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives. Springer Verlag. pp. 211-232.details The chapter discusses the dual nature of corporate transparency politics as a means of governing and taming corporate power and as an instrument of corporate control and profit maximization. The authors conceptualize four levels of transparency practices in global production networks, arguing that the consideration of these levels is necessary to understand the political nature of corporate transparency. As Scheper and Zajak show, these levels are relevant with regard to the wider dynamics of power relations, political conflicts and social change (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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