Improvement of the Negative Responsibility to the Right to Health of the Multinational Enterprises
Analysis from the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
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- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.220307.195How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Negative responsibilities; Positive obligations; Multinational enterprises; The right to health; Respect and protect the rights
- Abstract
States have always been regarded as the subject that undertakes obligations of the right to health. Although the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights allows companies to assume some obligations of the right to health, they only respect but do not actively protect this right. With the increasing influence of multinational corporations, their impact on the right to health, especially the negative impact, has become increasingly widespread. Enterprises should assume their corresponding obligations. However, the existing regulations on the burden of enterprises are far from enough. By using the analysis of documents and cases, this essay has explored the reasons for the insufficient performance of existing enterprises and hopes to promote enterprises to better protect the right to health. This paper argues and shows that regarding the existing problems of multinational enterprises and the protection of the right to health, the measures including the improvement of the legal system, the optimization of the enterprise’s own system, and the clarification on the concept and standard of the right to health can help companies better respect the right to health and promote humans to enjoy a higher standard of health.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Qi Chen AU - Boxin Li AU - Kuang Zhang PY - 2022 DA - 2022/03/26 TI - Improvement of the Negative Responsibility to the Right to Health of the Multinational Enterprises BT - Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Financial Innovation and Economic Development (ICFIED 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1175 EP - 1182 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220307.195 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220307.195 ID - Chen2022 ER -