2 - Victims’ Rights To Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Violations

Summary

While TNCs stand to benefit greatly from their work in less developed or developing countries, it is frequently the local, most vulnerable populations and communities – often nonconsenting to the development – who absorb most of the costs associated with this economic activity in the form of lower labor and regulatory costs, environmental damages, and civil and human rights violations.¹ Although many TNCs are responding to human rights violations by acting responsibly, engaging in due diligence,² and otherwise establishing mechanisms to assist in the prevention of human rights violations, when violations do occur, victims often do not have any remedy available to them.