Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the substantive and procedural standards developed in this area under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) system. It also focuses on the extraterritorial application of the ECHR, seeking to assess whether it provides for the legal duty of the MNCs' home states to protect against human rights abuses occurring abroad. The book explores the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and the concept of mandatory human rights due diligence through the analysis of the European Union (EU) and the European states' domestic approaches. It deals with access to remedy in Europe and includes Carmen Marquez Carrasco, about the recent Opinion of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency on access to remedy, highlighting some of the shortcomings of the current domestic and EU legislations.