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corporate managers who factor social and environmental considerations into their decision-making are, in effect, ‘imposing taxes … and deciding how the tax proceeds shall be spent’. By deviating from their organizational duties—maximizing profits for the
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. Furthermore, multinational corporations operating in Ecuador are obliged to follow constitutional law, which means that the duty to protect the environment also applies to them. If they breach the rights of nature, they can be held responsible retrospectively
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Transnational Human Rights Litigation
A Means of Obtaining Effective Remedy Abroad?
Angela Lindt
: 69 ; Skinner 2014: 214–215 ). This obstacle has been challenged by suing parent companies for a breach of ‘duty of care’ or ‘due diligence’, rather than for a direct involvement in abuses. Hence, the strategy is not to ‘pierce’, but to circumvent the
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stress their duty and sacrifice as the basis for their recognition, focusing on specific and personal achievements during the war, as they overall accept the war itself and its outcome cannot be claimed as merits in themselves. Before turning to how
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Genevieve Bell
Go Virtual amid Coronavirus ’, Al Jazeera , 24 May , https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/eid-ramadan-celebrations-virtual-coronavirus-200522225334395.html . Noguchi , Y. ( 2020 ), ‘ Coronavirus Triple Duty: Working, Parenting, and
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