Teacher	Deniz Kellecioglu
Room	407
Time	10:15 - 12:00
Slides	MR2106 Lecture Corporate accountability - the problems by Deniz Kellecioglu 2024.pdf
Preparation	Please visit the webpages of the following civil society organisations and utilise their material on the topic in order to 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/. Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/topic/economic-justice-and-rights/corporate-accountability The Danish Institute for Human rights: https://www.humanrights.dk/business-human-rights European Coalition for Corporate Justice: https://corporatejustice.org/ European Network of corporate observatories: https://corpwatchers.eu/?lang=en. You are welcome to utilise other reliable sources and scholarly publications.

This lecture is intended to provide an analytical overview of the connection of transnational corporations (TNCs) to human rights. It identifies TNC 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 violations, including environmental destructions, take place from TNC operations. In this endeavour, the issue of power imbalances between corporations, states, and the civil society are discussed.

Additional reading/resources (not mandatory)

From the reading list of the course: Brysk, Alison. 2005. Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society. Routledge. [Chapter 1]

Alston, Philip. 2024. International Human Rights [Chapter 13. Non-State Actors: Businesses and Others: https://humanrightstextbook.org/digital-book/chapter-13 OPEN ACCESS]