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Corporate social responsibility, human rights and pharmaceutical companies

Poeth, Silvie
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Poeth, Silvie
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Corporate social responsibility
human rights
pharmaceutical companies
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Political ethics
Ethics of law
Rights based legal ethics
Economic ethics
Business ethics
Bioethics
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Business Ethics
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"Pharmaceutical corporations are important actors that can have great influence on access to medicines. Although, their first and primary goal is to achieve as much profit as possible, the perspective on the role that companies should play in society has changed. In this context, an important development is the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Within their respective spheres of profit-driven activity and influence, pharmaceutical companies increasingly take into account human rights. They have developed internal codes of conduct and signed several international guidelines and standards. In this paper, the activities of three pharmaceutical companies towards accessibility and availability of AIDS medicines have been explored through analysing their websites and reports. It shows to what extent these pharmaceutical companies take into account human rights and whether they comply with it through corporate social responsibility (CSR). "
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2007
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