Read more
Zusatztext ..the collected essays are detailed and thoughtful, and provide an excellent overview of an under-theorised area within international law. Informationen zum Autor Philip Alston is Professor of Law at New York University Law School. Klappentext Can transnational corporations ignore human rights as long as governments don't hold them accountable? If the UN is put in charge of a territory, is it bound by human rights law? Under traditional approaches to human rights, non-state actors cannot be parties to the relevant treaties and so they are only bound to the extent that obligations accepted by States can be applied to them by governments. This situation threatens to make a mockery of much of the international system of accountability for human rights violations. The contributors to this volume examine the different approaches that might be taken in order to ensure some degree of accountability. Making space in the legal regime to take account of the role of non-State actors is one of the biggest and most critical challenges facing international law today. Zusammenfassung Can transnational corporations ignore human rights as long as governments don't hold them accountable? If the UN is put in charge of a territory, is it bound by human rights law? This book examines the approaches that might be taken in order to ensure some degree of accountability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction 1: Philip Alston: The 'Not-a-Cat' Syndrome: Can the International Human Rights Regime Accommodate Non-State Actors? 2: August Reinisch: The Changing International Legal Framework for Dealing with Non-State Actors Part II: Non-Governmental Organizations and International Organizations as Non-State Actors 3: Menno T. Kamminga: The Evolving Status of NGOs under International Law: A Threat to the Inter-State System? 4: François Gianviti: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the International Monetary Fund Part III: Corporations 5: Celia Wells and Juanita Elias: Catching the Conscience of the King: Corporate Players on the International Stage 6: Ralph Steinhardt: Corporate Responsibility and the International Law of Human Rights: The New Lex Mercatoria 7: Olivier de Schutter: The Accountability of Multinationals for Human Rights Violations in European Law 8: David Weissbrodt and Muria Kruger: Human Rights Responsibilities of Businesses as Non-State Actors Bibliography on Non-State Actors in International Law ...
