Teacher	Deniz Kellecioglu
Room	403
Time	13:15 - 15:00
Slides	To be added
Preparation	Visit the following civil society organisations and utilise their material on the topic. By doing so you should be better prepared for the lecture, but also for the Seminar 1 assignment. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/. Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/corporate-accountability/. Transnational Institute: https://www.tni.org/en/corporate-power. European Network of corporate observatories: https://corpwatchers.eu/?lang=en. You are also welcome to search in reliable news agencies and other organisations to find information.

This lecture builds on the previous two lectures and provides an overview of the connection of multinational corporations (MNCs) to human rights. It further identify and distinguish MNC operations that are linked to human rights in the globalising world, but especially in the Global South. The lecture also attempt to connect such business operations to dominant economic policies, most notably wrapped under the term "neoliberalism", but also "neoconservatism". Finally, the lecture aims to provide an analytical approach to understand why such serious human rights abuses, including environmental degradation, take place from MNC operations. In this endeavour, the issue of power imbalances between corporations, states, and the civil society is discussed.

MR2106 Lecture 3 Corporate accountability - the problems by Deniz Kellecioglu 2022.pdf

Additional reading/resources (not mandatory)

”Rights for people, Rules for Corporations” https://stopisds.org