State and non-state actors and their duty to protect human rights – Case study: Ecuador vs. Chevron
The States realised that they should start doing more to protect fundamental rights only after the Second World War. This lead to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1948 (Sepulveda et al., 2010). Even though it was adopted as a soft law instrument, it inspired the adoption of the two UN human rights conventions (Sepulveda et al., 2010), several regional human rights instruments, and multiple national bills of rights included in national Constitutions (Sepulveda et al., 2010).