Regulations of Home and Host States on the Protection of Human Rights of Multinational Enterprises

Abstract

With the continuous development of modern society, transnational corporations have played an increasingly important role in the world economy. They promote economic exchanges between countries, are conducive to the development of economic globalization, and also bring considerable economic benefits to the local area. At the same time, however, MNEs have also violated human rights from time to time. Many multinational companies choose not to consider the human rights of workers in the host country in order to pursue economic benefits. This situation has become increasingly serious in recent years, which has attracted the attention and research of many scholars. There is no unified conclusion and solution on how to regulate MNEs, especially on the regulatory responsibilities and methods of home and host countries. Considering that the current situation of human rights violations by MNEs is terrible, more solutions are needed to solve this problem. This article introduces some difficulties faced by home and host countries and their efforts to regulate Multinational Enterprises’ human rights violations. Converting soft law into hard law according to the national conditions of each country, improving supervision, and signing bilateral or multilateral regulatory agreements between countries may be the solutions to this problem.