Research Programme

BANKS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: PATHWAYS TO COMPLIANCE

The results of the Research Group Case Study: a step forward   M. Bordignon

  • On the way to the future banks’ attitude towards Human Rights
  • The methodology and the case sample
  • The results of the quantitative analysis

Norms, compliance and responsibility

  • Business and Human Rights after Ruggie: some updates             G. Lepore
  • Knowing the global Human Rights principles and norms to be complied with   A. Costa, A. Sarro
  • Banks’ Human Rights and environmental accountability: in search of a comprehensive approach   A. Bonfanti
  • Ensuring energy versus Human Rights protection   S. Quadri
  • CSR policies and national Laws: towards a private-public partnership?   G. Lepore
  • Complicity as the basic parameter for determining banks’ responsibility for Human Rights violations    A. Costa

The enforcement of Human Rights norms: the players approaches

  • The expansion of the competence of advanced business home Countries Courts to make judgements regarding alleged human rights abuses committed abroad   M. C. Caracciolo
  • International Human Rights accountability mechanisms benchmarking    S. Solidoro
  • The National Overseas Investment and Credit Guarantee Agencies as well as the National Banking Associations              A. Gentili
  • A market-based regime of Human Rights protection: banks and Human Rights entrepreneurialism   D. de Felice

The consequences of Human Rights abuses: a tentative evaluation of the dimension of the damages suffered by the banks, both economic and reputational, due to involvement in human rights abuses

  • Reputational risk    S. Fratini