Economic Globalisation and Human Rights - Eiuc Studies on Human Rights and Democratization

Klappentext A 2007 assessment of the relationship between economic globalisation and human rights. Zusammenfassung How can human rights retain their key role in securing human dignity in an age when states lose importance and non-statal actors are on the rise? Issues covered in this 2007 book range from the need for localisation of human rights to the efforts to make multinational corporations more socially responsible. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Koen De Feyter; Part I. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights and Economic Globalisation: 1. Economic globalisation, globalist stories of the state, and human rights Jernej Pikalo; 2. Towards a theory of global ethics in support of human rights George Ulrich; 3. Localising human rights Koen De Feyter; 4. Globalisation and social rights Adalberto Perulli; Part II. The Relevance of Human Rights for International Economic Organisations: 5. The World Trade Organization and human rights Wolfgang Benedek; 6. Making trade policies more accountable and human rights-consistent: a NGO perspective of using human rights Instruments in the case of access to medicines Davinia Ovett; 7. The Bretton Woods Institutions and human rights: converging tendencies Laurence Boisson de Chazournes; Part III. International Corporate Accountability: 8. Alternative perspectives on international responsibility for human rights violations by multinational corporations Francesco Francioni; 9. Human rights, arbitration, and corporate social responsibility in the law of international trade Fabrizio Marrella; Part IV: 10. General conclusions Wolfgang Benedek and Fabrizio Marrella.

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• Authors: Wolfgang Benedek, Wolfgang Feyter Benedek
• Assisted by: Wolfgang Benedek (Editor), Benedek Wolfgang (Editor), Koen De Feyter (Editor), Koen De Feyter (Editor), Fabrizio Marrella (Editor), Marrella Fabrizio (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521187633
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18763-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Eiuc Studies on Human Rights a; European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation; European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Comparative Politics, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law