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Contracting Out of Human Rights

Author : Amnesty International
Publisher : Amnesty International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contracting Out of Human Rights written by Amnesty International and published by Amnesty International. This book was released on 2005 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest private-sector investment projects in Africa is threatening human rights in Chad and Cameroon. A consortium of oil companies, led by ExxonMobil and including Chevron and Petronas, is extracting oil from the Doba oilfields in southern Chad and transporting it through a newly built 1,070 km pipeline to Cameroon's Atlantic coast. International law places the primary obligation for realising human rights on states. However, there is increasing recognition that responsibility for contributing to the protection of human rights extends to other actors in society, as acknowledged in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amnesty International believes that companies have human rights responsibilities within their sphere of influence. These extend globally and are particularly relevant when companies operate in countries where grave violations of human rights are part of the context of their activities, as is the case in Chad and Cameroon. This report highlights the potential dangers to human rights posed by investment agreements underpining the pipeline project, as well as the need for a new approach to investment that ensures respect for human rights. Amnesty International calls on the governments, international financial institutions and companies involved in the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project to revise the investment agreements to include an explicit guarantee that nothing in them can be used to undermine either the human rights obligations of the states or the human rights responsibilities of the companies.

Contracting Human Rights

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788112334
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Contracting Human Rights written by Alison Brysk and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human Rights analyzes the way forward in an era of many challenges. This multidisciplinary book contributes to building understanding of the maturation of human rights, from a dissident doctrine to a dynamic parameter of global governance and civil society. Through an examination of both global and local challenges to human rights, including loopholes, backlash, accountability, and new opportunities to move forward, this book analyzes trends across multiple-issue areas.

Public Procurement and Human Rights

Author : Olga Martin-Ortega
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788116313
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Procurement and Human Rights by : Olga Martin-Ortega

Download or read book Public Procurement and Human Rights written by Olga Martin-Ortega and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely work reflects on the role and obligations of the state as a buyer of goods and services, from the dual disciplinary perspectives of public procurement and human rights. Through theoretical and doctrinal analyses, and practice-focused case studies, it interrogates the evolving character of public procurement as an interface for multiple normative regimes and competing policies. Challenging the prevailing paradigm which subordinates human rights to narrowly-defined economic goals, insightful contributions advance a compelling case for greater inter-disciplinarity and policy coherence as crucial to realising international policies such as those embodied in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Forced to Be Good

Author : Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801458706
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Forced to Be Good by : Emilie M. Hafner-Burton

Download or read book Forced to Be Good written by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union has done the same. In addition to addressing economic issues, these agreements also regulate the protection of human rights. In Forced to Be Good, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton tells the story of the politics of such agreements and of the ways in which governments pursue market integration policies that advance their own political interests, including human rights. How and why do global norms for social justice become international regulations linked to seemingly unrelated issues, such as trade? Hafner-Burton finds that the process has been unconventional. Efforts by human rights advocates and labor unions to spread human rights ideals, for example, do not explain why American and European governments employ preferential trade agreements to protect human rights. Instead, most of the regulations protecting human rights are codified in global moral principles and laws only because they serve policymakers' interests in accumulating power or resources or solving other problems. Otherwise, demands by moral advocates are tossed aside. And, as Hafner-Burton shows, even the inclusion of human rights protections in trade agreements is no guarantee of real change, because many of the governments that sign on to fair trade regulations oppose such protections and do not intend to force their implementation. Ultimately, Hafner-Burton finds that, despite the difficulty of enforcing good regulations and the less-than-noble motives for including them, trade agreements that include human rights provisions have made a positive difference in the lives of some of the people they are intended-on paper, at least-to protect.

Public Participation and Foreign Investment Law

Author : Eric de Brabandere
Publisher : Nijhoff International Investme
ISBN 13 : 9789004397651
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Public Participation and Foreign Investment Law written by Eric de Brabandere and published by Nijhoff International Investme. This book was released on 2021 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Public Participation and Foreign Investment Law offers a systematic treatment of public participation from the standpoint of the three main sources of foreign investment law, namely treaties, legislation and contracts. It identifies and critically discusses the different forms of public participation that can be found or envisaged in foreign investment law. From this perspective, the book looks at public participation as vehicle to strike a balance between private and public rights and interests. This book contributes to the understanding of the current forms, level and impact of public participation. It provides indications on how such participation could be enhanced with a view of improving the balance and legitimacy of the legal instrument related to the promotion and protection of foreign investments"--

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Author : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789211542011
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication contains the 'Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework', which were developed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. The Special Representative annexed the Guiding Principles to his final report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/17/31), which also includes an introduction to the Guiding Principles and an overview of the process that led to their development. The Human Rights Council endorsed the Guiding Principles in its resolution 17/4 of 16 June 2011."--P. iv.

The Idea of Human Rights

Author : Charles R. Beitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199604371
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Human Rights written by Charles R. Beitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights have become one of the most important moral concepts in global political life over the last 60 years. Charles Beitz, one of the world's leading philosophers, offers a compelling new examination of the idea of a human right.

The Constitutional Dimension of Contract Law

Author : Luca Siliquini-Cinelli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319498436
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional Dimension of Contract Law written by Luca Siliquini-Cinelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the hallmarks of the present era is the discourse surrounding Human Rights and the need for the law to recognise them. Various national and supranational human rights instruments have been developed and implemented in order to transition society away from atrocity and callousness toward a more just and inclusive future. In some countries this is done by means of an overarching constitution, while in others international conventions or ordinary legislation hold sway. Contract law plays a pivotal role in this context. According to many, this is done through the much-debated ‘civilising mission’ of the contract, a notion which itself constitutes the canon of the Western liberal principle of ‘civilised economy’. The movement away from the belief in the absolute freedom of contract, which reached its zenith in the nineteenth century, to the principles of fairness and justice that underpin contract law today, is often deemed to be a testament to this civilising influence. Delving into the interplay between human rights policies, constitutional law, and contract law from both theoretical and practical perspectives, this first volume of a two-book collection offers a totally new reappraisal of the subject by gathering a collection of essays written by contract law scholars from Europe, South Africa, Canada, and Australia. Instead of providing the reader with a sterile compilation of positivistic norms and policies on the impact of fundamental rights and constitutional law issues on contract law’s development, the authors build on their personal experience to analyse specific topics related to contracting that include a constitutional dimension. The book fills an important void in comparative law scholarship and in so doing represents the starting point for further debate on the subject.

War by Contract

Author : Francesco Francioni
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019960455X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book War by Contract written by Francesco Francioni and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conduct of armed conflict is increasingly being outsourced to private military and security companies, whose legal position remains unclear. This book identifies and analyses the human rights and humanitarian law framework applicable to these companies, examining how they can be held to account and how victims can obtain remedies.

Redirecting Human Rights

Author : A. Grear
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230274633
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Redirecting Human Rights written by A. Grear and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of globalization and mounting evidence of the corporate subversion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, Anna Grear interrogates the complex tendencies within law that are implicated in the emergence of 'corporate humanity'. Grear presents a critical account of legal subjectivity, linking it with law's intimate relationship with liberal capitalism in order to suggest law's special receptivity to the corporate form. She argues that in the field of human rights law, particularly within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, human embodied vulnerability should be understood as the foundation of human rights and as a key qualifying characteristic of the human rights subject. The need to redirect human rights in order to resist their colonization by powerful economic global actors could scarcely be more urgent.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contracting Out to Private Military and Security Companies

Author : Nikolaos Tzifakis
Publisher : Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
ISBN 13 : 2930632186
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Contracting Out to Private Military and Security Companies by : Nikolaos Tzifakis

Download or read book Contracting Out to Private Military and Security Companies written by Nikolaos Tzifakis and published by Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. This book was released on 2012-04-29 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PDF can be downloaded for free from: http://martenscentre.eu/publications/contracting-out-private-military-and-security-companies The global trend for contracting out the supply of military and security services is growing. Security is being transformed from a service for the public or common good into a privately provided service. This paper argues that the implications of outsourcing security services to private agencies are neither a positive nor negative phenomenon. However, proper regulation of private military and security services is important. The author recommends that states should determine their 'inherently governmental functions' and keep these functions out of the market's reach.

Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights

Author : Stéphanie Lagoutte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198791402
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights written by Stéphanie Lagoutte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of the contributions were presented at the 2014 Association of Human Rights Institutes Research Conference in Copenhagen"--Preface.

The Public-private Law Divide

Author : Matthias Ruffert
Publisher : BIICL
ISBN 13 : 9781905221349
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis The Public-private Law Divide by : Matthias Ruffert

Download or read book The Public-private Law Divide written by Matthias Ruffert and published by BIICL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication is a collection of papers of the second meeting of the Dornburg Research Group on New Administrative Law which was held in London in May 2007"--Acknowledgments.

Human Rights Law

Author : Merris Amos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849468184
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Law written by Merris Amos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this completely revised and updated second edition of Human Rights Law, the judicial interpretation and application of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998 is comprehensively examined and analysed. Part I concerns key procedural issues including: the background to the Act; the relationship between UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights; the definition of victim and public authority; determining incompatibility including deference and proportionality; the impact of the Act on primary legislation; and damages and other remedies for the violation of Convention rights. In Part II of the book, the Convention rights as interpreted and applied by United Kingdom courts, are discussed in detail. All important Convention rights are included with a new chapter on freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Other Convention rights considered in the national context include: the right to life; freedom from torture; the right to liberty; fair trial; the right to private life, family life and home; the right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions; and the right to freedom from discrimination in the enjoyment of Convention rights. The second edition of Human Rights Law will be invaluable for those teaching, studying and practising in the areas of United Kingdom human rights law, constitutional law and administrative law.

What We Owe Each Other

Author : Minouche Shafik
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120764X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book What We Owe Each Other written by Minouche Shafik and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.

After Public Law

Author : Cormac Mac Amhlaigh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191647993
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book After Public Law written by Cormac Mac Amhlaigh and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public law has been conceived in many different ways, sometimes overlapping, often conflicting. However in recent years a common theme running through the discussions of public law is one of loss. What function and future can public law have in this rapidly transforming landscape, where globalized states and supranational institutions have ever-increasing importance? The contributions to this volume take stock of the idea, concepts, and values of public law as it has developed alongside the growth of the modern state, and assess its continued usefulness as a distinct area of legal inquiry and normativity in light of various historical trends and contemporary pressures affecting the global configuration of law in general. Divided into three parts, the first provides a conceptual, philosophical, and historical understanding of the nature of public law, the nature of private law and the relationship between the public, the private, and the concept of law. The second part focuses on the domains, values, and functions of public law in contemporary (state) legal practice, as seen, in part, through its relationship with private domains, values, and functions. The final part engages with the new legal scholarship on global transformation, analysing the changes in public law at the national level, including the new forms of interpenetration of public and private in the market state, as well as exploring the ubiquitous use of public law values and concepts beyond the state.