Keywords : international environmental law


The role of multinational corporations in enforcing the rules of public international law

Basher Sabhan Ahmed

Journal of college of Law for Legal and Political Sciences, 2022, Volume 11, Issue issue 40 part 1, Pages 162-183

One of the most important needs of public international law is strengthening the mechanisms for implementing its rules. Here lies the importance of a positive role of multinational companies that are utilized in this matter, although multinational companies are not persons of international law, but international practice confirms that they play a positive role On its own sometimes in the implementation of international obligations, therefore the international community, especially the United Nations, should organize the work of multinational companies in the form of international agreements bearing binding, organized and developed rules for the work of these companies due to the increasing role they play, and the international community should strengthen the role of multinational companies. By giving it a role in concluding international treaties that affect its activity, by giving it an opinion and inviting it to conferences leading to the conclusion of those treaties.