Pressure has been building up, especially from nongovernmental organisations in the Western world, to make transnational corporations (TNCs) responsible for breaches, or complicity in breaches, of human rights in developing countries. However progress has been uneven, at best.
Unocal, a California-based oil and gas corporation, was sued in the US federal courts and the California state courts for alleged complicity in serious violations of human rights (torture, murder, rape and forced labour) committed by the Myanmar armed forces, who were supposed to be protecting a pipeline for Unocal and its partners. Other TNCs have also been sued in the US courts for a variety of alleged breaches of human rights.
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