Corporate Human Rights Accountability in India : What Have We Learned from Bhopal?

This paper illustrates that the Indian government seems to have learned hardly any lessons from ‘Bhopal' – a symbol of corporate impunity for human rights abuses – because it continues to pursue policies of economic development at the cost of human rights. It is argued that any regulatory framework, in order to be effective, should understand the nuances of the changed power dynamics between states and multinational corporations and move beyond relying solely on states to hold non-state actors accountable