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Article

1 Jun 2010

Author:
Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy, H-Human Rights, H-Net Reviews

[PDF] Review of Wettstein, Florian, "Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution" - Human Rights and Multinational Corporations: Reframing the Debate

Wettstein presents a compelling argument for imposing human rights obligations on multinational corporations (MNCs). His ambitious three-part inquiry is grounded in an examination of human rights and social justice theory, including an engagement with political economy and business organization theory. This permits him to conceptualize MNCs as quasi-governmental institutions, hence primary agents of justice and bearers of human rights obligations. The result of this analysis is his proposal of a tripartite human rights duty: respect, protect, and proactively realize (ch. 9), which to a certain degree goes beyond the protect, respect, and remedy framework of the Special Rapporteur for Business and Human Rights.