The Research On Human Rights Responsibilities Of Corporation

Present era is the era of rights, people’s awareness of their rights has got a general increase. As economic organizations that closely linked with people’s rights, the importance of corporate responsibility are more and more obvious, especially in the background of economic globalization, The number of multinational enterprises are increasing year by year, The global scope of business activities of multinational enterprises also determines its global influence. As a product of economic development, the contents of corporate social responsibility are more and more widely with the continuous development of economy and society, As its core content, the importance of corporate responsibility for human rights also emerged. Studying on corporate responsibility for human rights has very important theoretical and practical significance.Corporate responsibility for human rights is not an independently generated conception, it is separated from the corporate social responsibility out with the development of the social and economic, therefore, The study on corporate responsibility for human rights must be established on the basis of corporate social responsibility, and to define relevant conceptions in comparison and analysis between them. At present, whether theoretical or practical level, there are a series of problems limit the realization of corporate responsibility for human rights, There are three aspects in theoretical level:First, corporate responsibility for human rights is not be raised to the level of human rights to given appropriate attention to; Second, legislative practice and the theory of corporate responsibility for human rights are out of touch; Third, both the corporate and individual’s awareness of human rights is in lack. The dilemma in practical level is mainly reflected in three aspects:First, there are all sorts of shortcomings that difficult to overcome, Whether hard law, soft law or self-regulatory mechanisms and social oversight exist many deficiencies need to improve; Second, under the background of economic globalization, with the increasing number of multinational enterprises and the expansion of scale of multinational enterprises, difficulties increasingly prominent in the application of law, new regulatory approaches are in big demands.Studying on corporate responsibility for human rights is making a response to the theoretical dilemma that faced by corporate responsibility for human rights, this helps to define the scope of corporate responsibility for human rights in a better way, to recognize the property of human rights in corporate social Responsibility, And thus raise the level of regulation of corporate responsibility for human rights, but also a breakthrough in the limitations of subject range of human rights obligations. Studying on corporate responsibility for human rights also contribute further to achieve full protection of human rights, helping to promote the building of enterprise culture of human rights and enhance their personal sense of human rights, providing a theoretical basis for corporate to take responsibility for human rights, also open up new paths for corporate to take responsibility for human rights and regulatory way.Studying on corporate responsibility for human rights, we can define the scope of corporate responsibility for human rights, and urge corporate to consciously assume responsibility and reduce human rights violations. At the legislative level, studying and discussing on corporate responsibility for human rights can help to resolve the practical problems, to promote domestic and international legislation, accelerate the pace of legislation, thus providing a legal basis for corporate to take responsibility for human rights, and to regulate corporate’s conducts in human rights violations. At the judicial level, this helps to solve the problem of jurisdictional disputes that faced by national jurisdictions, to ensure that the judiciary can get the law to follow, then to achieve a fair judge, to address human rights disputes and maintain international and domestic social order.This article includes four chapters:The first chapter is to define the conception of corporate responsibility for human rights on the basis of comparison between corporate social responsibility and corporate responsibility for human rights; The second chapter demonstrates the legitimacy of corporate responsibility for human rights; The third chapter is to analysis those theory and practice regulatory problems in corporate responsibility for human rights; The fourth chapter is to open up new regulatory paths against the dilemma exists today.