Book Launch: Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights is delighted to host the launch of the book ‘Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions’ written by Oyeniyi Abe. This book examines the contemporary and contentious question of the critical connections between business and human rights, and the implementation of socially responsible norms in developing countries, with particular reference to Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. The manuscript examines, clarifies, and unpacks the guiding principles of a rights-based approach to development and social inclusion. It offers an excellent exposition of regulatory capacity, institutional efficacy, and democratic legitimacy of governance institutions that shape development including a comprehensive analysis of how states are shaping business and human rights discourses locally to develop a critical understanding of identified issues by exploring the latest theories through comparative lenses.
Author:
Oyeniyi Abe, is a Lecturer in Law at the Huddersfield Business School, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Comparative Law in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Oyeniyi has practiced and taught human rights, corporate and commercial law in Africa, Europe, and North America. He has served as a visiting researcher at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University, Canada; Institute for Business Ethics, University of St Gallen, Switzerland, Canadian Institute of Resources Law, Canada, and as a Fulbright Scholar at Loyola University, Chicago, USA.
Oyeniyi serves on the Executive Council of the International Law Association, Nigerian Branch, and is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, and the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association. He has provided consultancy services to international organizations such as the World Bank and the African Union on various aspects of development projects and human rights observance.
Panel:
Professor Damilola Olawuyi; Professor Ada Ordor; Professor Julia Sloth-Nielsen; Professor Sâ Benjamin Traoré; Brigadier Siachitema; Benafsha Delgado