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HUMAN RIGHTS AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: ADVANCES IN THE DEBATE

ABSTRACT

This study aims is to contribute to a synthesis of the topic of human rights within the scope of capitalist production relations, a topic known as “corporate responsibility,” which implies serious violations of human rights, especially during the Brazilian dictatorship. This research starts from empirical work but proposes a bibliographical synthesis that articulates literature by mixing texts from history and law with bibliographical documents from entities that carry out this debate. We argue that the current history of the dictatorship will change based on the results of recent research coordinated by CAAF/UNIFESP that sought to hold companies that breached rights violations during the dictatorship accountable. Such studies include the violation of human rights occurs in a cross-sectional manner: forced displacement, racism, sexism, attack on labor rights, cessation of the right of mobility, work conditions analogue to slavery, and systematic monitoring by systems of repression as some of the evaluated violations. We seek to bring some of the political intervention instruments available to this debate.

KEYWORDS:
Human rights and companies; Corporate responsibility; Transitional justice

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