PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Legal Personality, Negative And Positive Rights, Ken Saro-Wiwa
13 Apr 2020
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Silence as complicity: elements of a corporate duty to speak out against the violation. Florian wettstein - assistant professor in the ethics & business law department of the. The vast majority of corporate rights violations involve complicity, aiding and abetting violations by another actor, most often the host government. In an increasingly interconnected world our actions affect the lives of others in ever more profound ways. Thus, increasingly we may contribute to harm without being aware of it, or at least without intending to do so. The problem deepens if we are not merely looking at the actions of individuals, but at those of organizations that operate globally and on a large scale, such as multinational corporations. The very nature of wrongdoing is changing in the process of today"s globalization. The fact that corporations often contribute to wrongdoings in the course of their.
