Editorial<br>Accountability of Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Abuses

Multinational corporations and infectious disease: Embracing human rights management techniques

BACKGROUND Global health institutions have called for governments, international organisations and health practitioners to employ a human rights-based approach to infectious diseases. The motivation for a human rights approach is clear: poverty and inequality create conditions for infectious diseases to thrive, and the diseases, in turn, interact with social-ecological systems to promulgate pov...

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Access to affordable HIV/AIDS drugs: the human rights obligations of multinational pharmaceutical corporations.

Multinational Corporations, Technology Spillovers and Human Rights’ Impacts on Developing Countries

This paper stems from the recognition that, in the current globalized world, the achievement of economic development goals is not necessarily accompanied by improved social conditions, or respect of people’s human rights more generally. Through their internal resources and capabilities, which often exceed those of many developing countries, Multinational Corporations (MNCs) can either positivel...

Multinational Corporations’ Economic and Human Rights Impacts on Developing Countries: a Review and Research Agenda

Developing countries are attracting a significant portion of global Foreign Direct Investments. Governments of such countries often compete fiercely for attracting Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in the expectation of the advantages they will bring to their economies, often prioritizing economic goals over fundamental human rights. For long, economists have analysed the economic impacts of MN...