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As part of its engagement with cutting-edge legal scholarship, the Center aims to promote research focusing on some of the key challenges to human rights that arise within the processes of globalization. To this end, it has recently co-sponsored three edited volumes published by Oxford University Press in 2005:
Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement (eds. Philip Alston & Mary Robinson) (2005)
Non-State Actors and Human Rights (ed. Philip Alston) (2005)
Labour Rights as Human Rights (ed. Philip Alston) (2005)
Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement (eds. Philip Alston & Mary Robinson ) (2005)
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This volume addresses "highly specific but crucial aspects of the human rights and development interface, including the economics of social rights; land rights and women's empowerment; child labor and access to education; reform of legal and judicial systems; the human rights role of the private sector; and building human rights into development planning, especially the Poverty Reduction Strategy process." For more on Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement, see full description at Oxford University Press. This volume arose out of a high level Conference on Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement organized by the Center in collaboration with the Ethical Globalization Initiative in 2004. |
Non-State Actors and Human Rights (ed. Philip Alston) (2005)
This volume outlines different approaches that may be taken to ensure accountability of non-State actors in the human rights regime. It includes chapters dealing with:
- The 'Not-a-Cat' Syndrome: Can the International Human Rights Regime Accommodate Non-State Actors?, Philip Alston
- The Changing International Legal Framework for Dealing with Non-State Actors, August Reinisch
- The Evolving Status of NGOs under International Law: A Threat to the Inter-State System?, Menno T. Kamminga
- Economic, Social and Cultural Human Rights and the International Monetary Fund, François Gianviti
- Catching the Conscience of the King: Corporate Players on the International Stage, Celia Wells and Juanita Elias
- Corporate Responsibility and the International Law of Human Rights: The New Lex Mercatoria, Ralph Steinhardt
- The Accountability of Multinationals for Human Rights Violations in European Law, Olivier de Schutter
- Human Rights Responsibilities of Businesses as None-State Actors, David Weissbrodt and Muria Kruge
- Bibliography, Mary Rumsey
For more on Non-State Actors and Human Rights, see description at Oxford University Press.
Labour Rights as Human Rights (ed. Philip Alston) (2005)
This volume examines existing international agreements and institutions in a critical light and explores future options for governments, civil society and the labor movement. It includes chapters dealing with:
- Labour Rights as Human Rights: The Not so Happy State of the Art , Philip Alston
- Social Rights in a Globalized Economy, Simon Deakin
- The Right to Bargain Collectively in International Law: Workers' Right, Human Right, International Right?, Patrick Macklem
- Is the ILO Effective in Upholding Workers' Rights?: Reflections on the Myanmar Experience, Francis Maupain
- The Labor Dimension of the Emerging Free Trade Area of the Americas, Steve Charnovitz
- Should the E.U. Have the Power to Set Minimum Standards for Collective Labour Rights in the Member States?, A.C.L. Davies
- The European Union and International Labour Standards: The Dynamics of Dialogue Between the E.U. and the ILO, Tonia Novitz
For more on Labour Rights as Human Rights, see description at Oxford University Press.
