Remedying Injustice: Actions, Responsibility, and Reasons

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What can be done to remedy the injustice, who should do it, and why?
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Introduction
A supply chain is a sequence of interconnected business processes that are involved in the
production of goods and services and their distribution to various parts. Like other entities
and environments that people interact, the supply chain is also vulnerable to violation of
human right. Breach of human rights is activities rendered by an organization or individual
that denies those that depends on the service their privileges. Some of these fundamental
principles at the place of work has been identified by the international labour organization,
and are universal. According to the UN, businesses have a responsibility about adverse
human right impacts that occur through their relationships. They include a relationship with
business partners, entities in its value chain, and other entities connected to the business
operation, services or products. Businesses should side-step contributing to adverse human
right impacts through their activities.Also, in the supply chain and procurement process, the
company should mitigate the negative effects that are connected to their operation, products
or business services by their business relation even if they have not in any way contributed to
those impacts (Donaldson & Dunfee 1999, p.35).
Adverse impacts on the human right are vulnerable to all levels and stages of enterprise
supply chain, and they range from direct suppliers to small companies outsourced to supply
the goods and raw materials to direct supplier. Unbearable working conditions, human
trafficking in the name of employment, forced labour issues have been the conventional
focuses in the supply chain. However, the current focus has stressed on the right to safe
environment and right to personal space and privacy in business supply chains. The need to
address the violation of these rights was brought by the exposure of these injustices in the
supply chain of some companies in the developing countries, and the movements have been
spearheaded by NGOs and the media and accepted globally in supplies factories. Therefore

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business entities have positively responded and complied with these programs that are aimed
at establishing employer's safety and health standards in their global supply chain.
Ruggie's due diligence framework and guiding principles have not only been endorsed by the
UN Human right council but also welcomed by the enterprises and civil societies. This
framework focuses on neutral grounds and collective solutions to encountered problems in
joining compulsory and charitable methodologies, the framework majors on helping
organizations in working a plan within the business system of risk controlling. A business
enterprise should incorporate due diligence in mitigating danger of violating human rights.
This is because due diligent has been proved as a standard method. The business entity can
use the tertiary party to carry out due diligent. This will enable it to identify and act on
deception that the organization on its cannot detect. The enterprise will also detect corruption
within the supply chain and amongst their business partners. The moment these malpractices
are established, the organization can then analyze and act in an appropriate manner
(Beauchamp et.al, 2004, p.45). The international standards and the national law will act as the
guiding principles in punishing those involved in these dishonest and unethical dealings. The
motive of due diligence has not only concentrated on coping with risks that directly impact
the success of an organization, but also it is currently acknowledged that this crooked
business practices harm the social, economic and political atmosphere in which the
organization functions. Any potential harm to people of a business undertaking must be
recognized through the due diligence process.
The corporate actor using due diligence should not only restrict themselves in just detecting
the injustices on human caused by themselves and their counterparts, but also use the
principles in avoiding this undesirable harm in the supply chain in the event of harmful
results happening; due diligence is supposed to give the base for remediation. Also, due
diligence in the supply chain is anticipated to be a continuous development, denoting that