CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Natsvlishvili Ana |
|---|---|
| Title | Favorites of Nature but Orphans of Justice : Multinational Corporations In Resource Rich Yet Poor Countries; Human Rights Perspective |
| Summary | This paper is about the battle which many may already consider lost – struggle of people from developing countries to claim their rights against the mighty Multinational Corporations(MNCs) who severely exploit human and natural resources and cause irreparable damage to the environment in these countries to pursue their goal - minimize costs and maximize profit. Owing to their legally artificial and already transnational nature, and the loopholes in national and international human rights law, MNCs are getting away with the most severe human rights violations, further encouraged by impunity to keep doing same injustices. The claim of this paper is that MNCs are evolving as the most powerful threat among the lawful non state agents to the realization and enjoyment of fundamental rights, which is the most visible in the light of the developing countries. The paper explores the multi-dimensional nature of the battle of poor communities against MNCs and concludes, that while the problems of those resource rich yet poor nations are so complex and deeply rooted that they can be handled only through multi-actor engagement strategies, this in no way absolves the MNCs from their own share of responsibility towards these countries and their populations. The paper refers to relevant examples throughout the analysis and sends a message to powerful MNCs that the recent groundbreaking developments demonstrate - MNCs cannot render themselves immune from truth about injustices they commit, and the latter is in fact speedily finding ways to translate itself in sanctions imposed upon MNCs by judges and by market forces, consumers. |
| Supervisor | Tibor Tajti |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/natsvlishvili_ana.pdf |
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