Maritime Employers Liability

Contents:

"Liability Companies on transnational environmental damage"

• Introduction
• Standards of monitoring the activities of TNCs in the UDHR and the ICESCR
• Why and how these transnational corporations are responsible for environmental damage and harm.
• Three catastrophic disasters in human history
• International guidelines for the control of TNC activities
• Are there standards and guidelines were enough to hold those responsible TNC
• Need for internationally binding rules
• Recommendations
• Concluding Remarks

responsibility of transnational corporations for environmental damage

Before I begin my presentation on this topic which is the responsibility of transnational corporations for damage to the environment, I want to say that this presentation seminar is only a policy document outlining a range of issues involved in the context of direction we will take steps to suggestions as far as the responsibility of CNC for damage to the environment are concerned. Or I can say that this is the first step of my research work.

To begin I would first like to explain briefly what are fundamentally TNC or MNC?

transnational corporations (TNCs), also called multinational enterprise (MNE), is a company or a production company that manages or provides services in more than one country. It may also be designated as an international company.

Standards specifically define a transnational corporation "as" an economic entity operating in more than one country or group of economic entities operating in two or more countries - whatever their legal form, whether in their country origin or country of activity, and individually or collectively. "The working group defines the term" other business "as" any company, regardless of internal or international nature of its activities, including a transnational corporation, contractor, supplier, licensee or distributor; the, partnership business, or another legal form used to establish the business entity and the nature of ownership of the entity. "

Very large multinationals have budgets that exceed a certain national GDP. Multinational corporations can have a powerful influence in local economies and the global economy and play an important role in international relations and globalization. It is indisputable that TNC are now the main vehicle of economic globalization. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In 2002, worldwide sales of TNCs reached $ 18 trillion of world exports.

Throughout the last half-century, states and international organizations have continued to expand the codification of international law of human rights by protecting individual rights against governmental abuses. In parallel with increased attention to the development of international criminal law as a response to war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity, there has been increasing attention to individual responsibility for serious violations of human rights. The creators of this increasingly large network of human rights obligations, however, did not pay sufficient attention to some of the powerful non-state actors more than anything, that is, transnational corporations and other businesses. With power must come responsibility and international human rights should focus enough on these powerful non-state actors in international immensely.

Transnational corporations evoke particular concern regarding the recent global trends because they a.