| dc.description.abstract | One of the great challenges faced by victims of human rights violations concerns the absence of effective norms of accountability of transnational corporations - TNCs when they are responsible for such violations. This challenge is even more intensified when the victims are people or groups belonging to subaltern groups due to the colonial matrix of power. An attempt has been made to understand the reasons why TNCs are not held accountable, as this impunity impacts individuals, groups and even states in the Global South. In this sense, this research intends to answer the question: can international law become a possible way to hold TNCs responsible for human rights violations of groups in a situation of subalternity? The research problem carried out here has two hypotheses: the zero hypothesis, which corresponds to the possible identification that it is not possible to carry out the accountability of TNCs that violate the human rights of groups in a situation of subalternity through international law; the second, hypothesis one, is that, as long as the orthodox conception of history is broken and intercultural cosmopolitanism is assumed as a fundamental basis of this right, it would be possible, through international law, to build accountability mechanisms for TNCs that violate rights humans from groups in a situation of subalternity, thus constituting an alternative to the zero hypothesis. This research was divided into two parts, each one responsible for verifying the hypotheses presented. From a dialogic analysis between decolonial theories with the third-world approaches to international law - TWAIL - and cosmopolitan theories, through the adoption of an intercultural cosmopolitanism as the foundation of international law, the possibility of international accountability of TNCs that violate human rights. | en |
