Children's Rights and Business
Governing Obligations and Responsibility

Children's Rights and Business: Governing Obligations and Responsibility is a comprehensive legal inquiry into children's rights and business. Relying on insights from various disciplines, the book illustrates the need for a children-focused inquiry on business and human rights. An analysis of the norm legalization process around the regulation of business and human rights, particularly of children's rights follows the inquiry into existing hard and soft law regulatory frameworks on children's rights and business. The book goes on to evaluate the promise of these frameworks in light of globalized business transactions through the lens of in-depth case illustrations on children's rights in cotton and mineral supply chains and children's rights in large-scale energy and transport investment projects. Finally, it concludes with a normative outlook on governing the children's rights obligations of businesses and responsibility when violations occur, drawing on global governance approaches.

Part I: 1. Children's rights obligations and business; Part II. Case Illustrations: A Brief Introduction: 2. Children's rights in supply chains; 3. Children's rights in investment projects; Part III: 4. A polycentric governance model of children's rights and business; 5. Polycentric governance of responsibility; 6. Children's rights, multiple duty-bearers and polycentric governance: summary conclusions.

Gamze Erdem Türkelli is a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the Law and Development Research Group, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. She works on human rights and development within international legal debates, with a particular focus on children's rights, business and human rights, hybrid actors and development financing. She holds degrees in Political Science, International Relations (Boğaziçi University, B.A.; Yale University, Connecticut M.A. as a Fulbright Fellow) and Law (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, Ph.D.).