Transnational Corporations and Infrastructure Development: Finance, Accountability, and Human Rights

Private corporations are under a legal obligation to respect international human rights. This is an emerging consensus on the international level. But how does this operate in practice? What does it mean that a private company is bound by human rights? And what do we mean by human rights in the field of business and who, finally, shall enforce the respective obligations? The seminar will address these issues from a practitioner’s perspective. The focus will be on what companies can do in order to ensure compliance with human rights obligations and reduce liability risks as a component of a sustainable company policy.

Biography 

Kilian Bälz is a partner at Amereller and is based in Berlin and Dubai. Amereller is an international law firm focusing on the MENA Region. With offices in Cairo, Tripoli, Baghdad, Erbil, and Dubai, Amereller advises international companies, financial institutions, development organizations, and NGOs on all aspects of doing business in the MENA Region. Kilian has extensive experience in working in Libya, Iraq and Yemen and regularly advises on human rights issues in connection with investments in fragile states. For many years, he was involved in negotiating employment standards in his capacity as chair of the National Employment Pact, an NGO promoting fair blue color employment in Egypt.  

Joins us via Zoom. Meeting ID: 897 4607 0453