Extending Corporate Liability to Human Rights Violations in Asia

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The focus of this paper is to look at recent developments in international human rights law that hold corporations liable for human rights abuses and explore the protection provided under the Alien Tort Statute to victims from Asia. Legal infrastructures are lacking in many Asian countries, resulting in victims seeking other means for relief. Domestic legislation can be used to regulate and monitor corporate human rights violations, but multilateral efforts that create measures to enforce corporate accountability should also be considered to increase protection of human rights.

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