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O Labirinto dos Direitos Humanos no Século XXI: A construção de novas leituras e práticas de Direitos Humanos diante do poder global das corporações transnacionais e instituições privadas
October 24, 2024
Law, Justice, and Citizenship in the Twenty First Century
Daniela Nascimento
Contemporary globalization is marked by the political, economic and social weight of transnational corporations and private institutions, for their ability to influence, shape and sustain global institutional models and behavior patterns.
This worldwide trend can generate a paradigm shift for the reading and practice of human rights, since, from its inception, it was considered that national and international human rights regulations were aimed at containing and demanding full respect from States, without expressly doing so for private companies. Therefore, as private companies can be violators or promoters of human rights, there is a need to observe how private corporations receive human rights regulations and demonstrate some type of responsibility. The objective is, based on the studies, to suggest a reframing of human rights, with interpretations and practices that also ensure the assumption of responsibilities in the protection of human rights by private corporations.
To do so, first, the work revisits the first constructions of international organizations on the subject, as well as the attempts to create a specific international standard aimed at obliging companies to necessarily respect human rights. It also observes the hermeneutic and jurisprudential evolution on the issue, as well as possible new human rights paradigms for a more efficient and comprehensive protection of rights From then on, through a sample of companies and content analysis, investigate the discourse of institutions and multinational corporations, in their webpages, in some countries, and understand to what extent there is an assimilation or rejection of the language of human rights by companies in their information to the public.
Finally, the study seeks in bibliographic and jurisprudential analyses and in the spontaneous information of the companies elements that can indicate paths for the future of human rights and can serve as pillars for this construction. In the end, it suggests ways to make human rights more effective and protected in the face of globalization and the structuring actions and omissions of private companies.
Keywords: Human Rights, private companies, responsabilities
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This worldwide trend can generate a paradigm shift for the reading and practice of human rights, since, from its inception, it was considered that national and international human rights regulations were aimed at containing and demanding full respect from States, without expressly doing so for private companies. Therefore, as private companies can be violators or promoters of human rights, there is a need to observe how private corporations receive human rights regulations and demonstrate some type of responsibility. The objective is, based on the studies, to suggest a reframing of human rights, with interpretations and practices that also ensure the assumption of responsibilities in the protection of human rights by private corporations.
To do so, first, the work revisits the first constructions of international organizations on the subject, as well as the attempts to create a specific international standard aimed at obliging companies to necessarily respect human rights. It also observes the hermeneutic and jurisprudential evolution on the issue, as well as possible new human rights paradigms for a more efficient and comprehensive protection of rights From then on, through a sample of companies and content analysis, investigate the discourse of institutions and multinational corporations, in their webpages, in some countries, and understand to what extent there is an assimilation or rejection of the language of human rights by companies in their information to the public.
Finally, the study seeks in bibliographic and jurisprudential analyses and in the spontaneous information of the companies elements that can indicate paths for the future of human rights and can serve as pillars for this construction. In the end, it suggests ways to make human rights more effective and protected in the face of globalization and the structuring actions and omissions of private companies.
Keywords: Human Rights, private companies, responsabilities