ABSTRACT

Human rights violations generally involve the state. But states also have an obligation to protect its citizens from the harmful acts of both private individuals and corporate entities. When a corporation or group of individuals violate human rights, we tend to forget that it's a human rights violation on the part of the state, which is obligated to prevent such abuses. Thus, what almost always is missing in stories involving corporate misdeeds—including the following film—is the responsibility of the state itself to prevent or to eliminate such practices and to offer human rights protection to its citizens.