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<p>Human rights promotion and protection is no more the issue of States only. Other non-states actors are directly or indirectly involved in this area. This is even more right for so called rights of second or third generation where States´ activities are interconnected with economic and social stakeholders. Especially, the right to food and right to environment are at stake when speaking about business activities of transnational corporations. The present article discusses the role transnational corporations play in the implementation of right to food and right to environment. Authors first addresses basic interconnections between TNCs´ business activities and right to food and right to environment (1); second they theoretically approach TNCs´ obligation to respect human rights (2), before developing general issues of right to food and right to healthy environment (3). Finally, they pinpoint scenarios of TNCs as duty-bearers with respect to right to food and right to environment.</p>
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Human rights promotion and protection is no more the issue of States only. Other non-states actors are directly or indirectly involved in this area. This is even more right for so called rights of second or third generation where States´ activities are interconnected with economic and social stakeholders. Especially, the right to food and right to environment are at stake when speaking about business activities of transnational corporations. The present article discusses the role transnational corporations play in the implementation of right to food and right to environment. Authors first addresses basic interconnections between TNCs´ business activities and right to food and right to environment (1); second they theoretically approach TNCs´ obligation to respect human rights (2), before developing general issues of right to food and right to healthy environment (3). Finally, they pinpoint scenarios of TNCs as duty-bearers with respect to right to food and right to environment.

Transnational Corporations – Duty Bearers of Obligations to Respect Right to Food and Right to Environment as Human Rights: From Utopia to Reality?

International and Comparative Law Review

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Human rights promotion and protection is no more the issue of States only. Other non-states actors are directly or indirectly involved in this area. This is...

Transnational Corporations – Duty Bearers of Obligations to Respect Right to Food and Right to Environment as Human Rights: From Utopia to Reality?

Published Online: Feb 05, 2024

Page range: 67 - 85

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/iclr-2023-0015

Keywords
transnational corporations, human rights, right to food, right to environment

© 2023 Pavel Bureš et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Transnational Corporations – Duty Bearers of Obligations to Respect Right to Food and Right to Environment as Human Rights: From Utopia to Reality?

Published Online: Feb 05, 2024

Page range: 67 - 85

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/iclr-2023-0015

Keywordstransnational corporations, human rights, right to food, right to environment

© 2023 Pavel Bureš et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
transnational corporations, human rights, right to food, right to environment