El «ángulo muerto» del Derecho Internacional: las empresas transnacionales y sus cadenas de suministro

Abstract

The implementation of binding norms and the search for effective remedies for victims of serious human rights violations committed by transnational corporations have been and continue to be the objectives of the most difficult struggle that human rights defenders are facing all over the world. At the international level, many attempts have been made to create binding rules on human rights and business. The «dead angle» of international law refers to the fact that actually there are no hard law norms capable of holding corporations responsible for the serious internationally wrongful perpetrated extraterritorially by their supply chains. The purpose of this work is to become aware of this problem, while evaluating other mechanisms, strategies and actions from a civil perspective, to guarantee the right of access to justice in an attempt to fill partially this «dead angle» of international law.