Ethical Responsibilities of Multinational Corporations Sourcing from Countries with Poor Human Rights Protections Within business today, there is a growing trend of multinational corporations actually sourcing from countries that are, for one reason or another, disadvantaged. However, although many of these countries might be disadvantaged in some way, it can, and frequently does, work in favor of the business itself. One of the most salient of these examples is that of multinational businesses operating within countries that have poor human rights protections. In these situations, there are a number of negative consequences that can arise, such as exploitation of workers, forcing them to work for extremely low pay, employing child laborers, excluding workers altogether, and a number of others. Therefore, there are many who argue that these corporations that work within these countries have an ethical responsibility to broadly improve the human rights protections of these countries beyond what is merely practical from a business standpoint. This is a sound idea, for reasons that will be examined in greater depth here. There are also a large number of options that are available to achieve these goals, which will also be examined. For starters, it can be argued that all businesses have a moral obligation to better society in some way for the sole reason that it is the right thing to do. More specifically, though, these businesses are some of the few entities, aside from
