Description
The doctrine of the responsibility to protect has been expanded on since its adoption in 2005. In 2009, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s report outlined a three-pillar strategy to implementing the responsibility to protect. This approach also gave the responsibility to protect doctrine its global remit, ensuring that R2P applies to every state at every time. Yet, in spite of the global remit, the contribution of corporate institutions to addressing egregious human right abuses has not been explored in R2P reports and scholarly works on the doctrine. This paper will argue that this is a significant oversight. It will argue that there is a need to move beyond the state-centric approach which has repeatedly failed to prevent and react to the commission of atrocity crimes. It will draw examples from the Kimberley Process and the reaction of corporate institutions to Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome murder in 2018 to show the potential of a corporate responsibility to protect.
