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Bună ziua! În legătură cu răspunsul întrebării nr. 26 din clarificările cazului de la Fiat Justitia, dorim să precizăm că data la care s-a pronunţat decizia definitivă şi irevocabilă este 3 august 2011, nu 2010 cum apare în clarificări. Dorim să ne cerem scuze pe această cale. Cu privire la trimiterea memoriilor, acestea se vor trimite în format electronic. Având în vedere sărbătorile pascale, s-a decis amânarea datei până la care se pot trimite memoriile, până pe 25 aprilie 2012. Vă dorim un Paşte Fericit şi mult succes!

I. Introduction Traditionally, human rights have been thought of as providing protection to individuals from abuses committed by states. However, more recently, non-state actors have rose as a new class of human rights offenders, and the need to regulate their conduct has become imperative. This paper suggests that enforcement and respect of human rights law would be more effective if transnational corporations would be held accountable under international law for human rights breaches. The paper starts by briefly presenting the increasing role of transnational corporations and their impact on human rights. It then analyzes the place of non-state actors in the international society. The paper further shows that in certain situations, states can be held accountable for human rights violations committed by non-state actors. It also addresses the existing approaches towards direct corporate responsibility. The paper concludes that the corporate entities’ p...