The survey detailed clear standards for acceptable corporate behavior on issues such as transparency, accountability, working conditions and environmental responsibility. Moreover, NGOs stated that the best method to ensure compliance was throughindependent monitoring of corporate operations and credible reporting by companies to the public. 249 NGO investigations and campaigns have had some impact. Intergovernmental organizations are reexamining the effect of TNCs' activities on human rights, as well. 250 Human Rights Watch believes that corporations have a clear responsibility to avoid complicity in human rights violations.
Complicity occurs in several cases.
First, when corporations benefit from the failure of government to enforce human rights standards. Third, when a corporation facilitates or participates in government human rights violations. Facilitation includes the company's provision of material or financial support for state security forces which then commit human rights violations that benefit the company. In the case of the Dabhol Power project, DPC has facilitated human rights abuses by the state, has benefited from them, and has also benefited from a failure of the government to enforce human rights standards. Human Rights Watch does not take a position on the persistent and pervasive allegations of corruption that surround Enron's establishment in Maharashtra and its way of doing business there.