Legislación sobre debida diligencia de empresas y derechos humanos en Chile: influencias internacionales en un eminente debate nacional

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.