Corporate Human Rights Abuses and the European Convention on Human Rights

Abstract

Issus related to corporate human rights abuses need to be dealt with on the universal as well as the regional level. Although political documents adopted by the UN and the Council of Europe are addressing mainly the legislative and executive branches of state power, they may also influence national and international adjudication.

Keywords

• Corporate abuses
• European Convention on Human Rights
• human rights
• universal
• international adjudication
• national adjudication