A responsabilidade das empresas transnacionais na violação dos direitos humanos: análise da construção do Tratado Internacional sobre Empresas e Direitos Humanos

Abstract

The present work objective to analyze and describe the process in which transnational companies, driven by globalization and neoliberalism, start to carry out their activities in different countries, configuring themselves as major violators of human rights. The relationship established between States and transnational companies will be analyzed and how this relationship affects governability, specifically in peripheral countries. It is also intended to identify the obstacles to the accountability of these companies, discussing the available legal mechanisms and drawing an overview of the phases of the United Nations agenda on the subject. Thus, the context of the construction of the International Treaty on Business and Human Rights will be analyzed, whose purpose is to create a binding instrument to regulate transnational business activity. The study used literary, jurisprudential and documentary research. The method used was the deductive-hypothetical.