Responsibility of Transnational Corporations for Human Rights Violations

This master dissertation is devoted to the responsibility of transnational corporations (hereinafter - TNCs) for human rights violations in their activities. The author considers the existing national and international approaches to the consideration of TNCs‘ duty to respect human rights, the history of TNCs’ development, the issues of legal personality of TNCs, the responsibility of TNCs and the jurisdictional component of TNCs' responsibility for human rights violations. Based on the results of the study of the accumulated practical and theoretical material, the author comes to the conclusion that at present TNCs are subjects of human rights observance, and that in case of violation of rights, they should bear responsibility. At the same time, there is no binding act in international law devoted to the obligation of TNCs to respect human rights, but at the moment there is a draft document devoted to this subject in the UN, which gives hope that this issue will receive its binding regulation in the UN.