当代商业和人权制度几乎只针对国家和商业实体。在整个领域以及各种文献和政策建议中，缺乏受害者的声音一直是一个持续的挑战。这一挑战得到了广泛认可，联合国首次将受影响社区获得补救作为2017年11月商业与人权论坛的中心主题。
“当商业损害人权”是及时的，它探讨了论坛的许多关键主题，并深入分析了与商业有关的人权影响以及右翼人士在获得补救措施方面遇到的挑战。该卷依赖于企业与受影响社区相交的各种事件的报告叙述和定性数据。它让右翼人士的声音能够被听到，并就政府和企业在与社区接触时可以采取的最佳做法提出了初步想法。然而，最重要的是，这本经过编辑的书主要从受影响的右翼人士的角度吸引了更多的读者。
这本书是同类书中的第一本。事实上，在目前出版的商业和人权领域的学术书籍中，没有一本提供了右翼人士的叙述，也没有将他们的观点作为叙述的中心。
When Business Harms Human Rights: Affected Communities that Are Dying to Be Heard
The contemporary business and human rights regime speaks almost exclusively to states and business entities. The absence of victim voices has been a consistent challenge within the field in general as well as within the various literature and policy proposals. This challenge is so widely recognized that, for the first time, the UN made affected communities’ access to remedies the central theme at the November 2017 Forum on Business and Human Rights.
“When Business Harms Human Rights” is timely, exploring many of the key themes from the forum and offers an in-depth analysis of business-related human rights impacts and the challenges experienced by rightsholders in accessing remedies. The volume relies on reported narratives of and qualitative data on various incidents where businesses have intersected with affected communities. It allows the voice of the rightsholders to be heard and presents initial ideas regarding best practices that governments and businesses can undertake when engaging with communities. Most importantly, however, this edited volume engages with a larger audience primarily from the perspective of affected rightsholders.
The volume stands as a first-of-its-kind. Indeed, of the scholarly books currently published within the field of business and human rights, none have provided narratives from rightsholders or made their perspectives the center of the narrative.
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