ABSTRACT
The third chapter seeks to examine and assess the notion of corporate accountability for human rights abuses. Given that corporations are not primary subjects of public international law, their involvement in such abuses has been often categorised as complicity. Accordingly, this chapter explores the policy meaning and legal implications of corporate complicity in human rights abuses, as well as the different categories that can be distinguished within the concept. Ultimately, this chapter provides a general assessment of what options offer the existing legal regimes for corporate accountability in human rights abuses, namely domestic and international criminal law, civil law of remedies and international human rights law.
