Transnational corporations and human rights :

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" Transnational corporations and human rights : "
Gonzalez Correa, Flor

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1100190
Doc. No	:	TLets607206
Main Entry	:	Gonzalez Correa, Flor
Title & Author	:	Transnational corporations and human rights :\ Gonzalez Correa, Flor
College	:	University of Birmingham
Date	:	2014
student score	:	2014
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	This thesis argues that transnational corporations (TNCs) bear primarily negative moral duties in relation to human rights, i.e. to avoid doing harm, and that they can be held responsible when they fail to discharge such duties. Thus, their duties are not primarily to protect human rights, as some commentators have argued. To defend the negative duties claim, I detail ways in which corporations inflict harm not only directly through their operations, but also by shaping and supporting a global institutional arrangement that foreseeably and avoidably produces human rights harms. Therefore, the negative duties of corporations should be understood to include refraining from engaging in harmful institutional practices, or participating overall in a harmful institutional order without providing adequate compensation to the victims of harm. If they fail to do so, TNCs can be held accountable for the negative outcomes engendered by the global order.
Subject	:	H Social Sciences (General)
	:	JA Political science (General)
Added Entry	:	University of Birmingham