NON – STATE ACTORS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Question 1: Outline the problems and challenges that arise in ensuring that the activities of transitional activities are consistent with the human standard?

              The government does not take or follow the necessary measures to ensure that TNCS complies with the laws and regulations.  In developing countries, such measures are more costly beyond their resource capabilities. Difficulties arise especially in the labour areas where countries have different accepted standards. There is competition between countries which discourages initiatives that’s might increase labour costs that makes one country look less attractive than others with less regulatory standards.  Also, the transitional complexity of manufacturing in an era of globalization makes it hard in identifying who is responsible for what activities and where.

Question 2:  In what ways can company violate the human right or can risk complicity?

            Through trade unions where companies provide employees information such as, names, phone numbers, and addresses to the government which is against the trade unions operations. Or calls in the police who brutally and disperse trade union officials.   Also, through technology where some companies provide technology to the government to abuse human rights.  The company can risk complicity by employing people without a valid visa to work under poor conditions. With the increase in human trafficking and abuse of migrant workers especially from developing countries, companies should be careful in using migrant labour directly. The company can run in the risk of being complicity through armed conflicts, where companies provide money, resources, infrastructure, products that support the abuse of human rights in the situation of armed conflict.

            Companies should respect and support the protection of human rights and they should avoid being complicit in human rights violation. Also, they should eliminate all forms of slavery and forced labour. Companies should come up with ways to effectively eliminate child labour and discrimination in their work.

The following is the most provoking question from the reading:

Question: Can transnational bodies pay no attention to human rights violation as long as the government does not shift the blame to them?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Reference

Chapter 15: Non state actors and human rights. N.D. Pp. 1385-1399.