Corporate Due Diligence and Human Rights Legislation in Chile: International Influences in an Eminent National Debate

According to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, all  companies have a responsibility to respect human rights. This  responsibility goes beyond the mere fact of refraining from violating  the human rights of third parties, but requires proactive measures to  prevent and redress the harmful effects of their activities. The  mechanism prescribed in the Guiding Principles for companies to  implement their responsibility to respect human rights due diligence,  which is an ongoing management process through which a company addresses  the negative consequences it may have on human rights in the context of  its operations and products and in all its commercial relations.  However, in the face of the limited voluntary implementation of this  process, they have recently emerged or are in the process of being  developed in the process of legal framework for mandatory due diligence.  In Europe, there is a particular impetus for the creation of such  rules, with laws already adopted in countries such as France, Germany,  the Netherlands and Norway. Thus, this collective work aims to offer an  overview of the obligatory due diligence in human rights, from the  precise legal analysis of the normative context, integrating  constructive proposals towards the future that is to come in Europe and  Latin America, and even to cover the study of the most recent and  relevant casuistics in this area.