As any other corporation, pharmaceutical companies have a human rights responsibility enshrined under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The Guiding Principles provides for the responsibility of businesses despite their nature …show more content…
The general set of responsibilities that these companies should discharge in order to improve access to medicine especially in developing countries include, adopting a human rights policy that recognizes the right to attainable standard of health, integrating the right in to their strategies, and projects, respecting the laws of the countries they operate in and/or where they are domiciled, and refraining from conduct that will encourage the state to violate human rights. The Guideline also contains specific positive and negative human rights responsibilities of