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Globalization And Foreign Policy In The Us, Rachele M. Hendricks
Globalization And Foreign Policy In The Us, Rachele M. Hendricks
Rachele M Hendricks-Sturrup
Globalization is a recent economic phenomenon that directly influences individuals’ freedom, opportunity and resources needed to freely move across the world to engage in and profit from transnational commerce. Several legal scholars and analysts have focused heavily on the costs and benefits of globalization. A number of its lauded benefits include decreased global poverty, increased political cooperation, cultural familiarity, war prevention, standard setting for human civil rights, and the extension of personal financial freedom across the world versus being concentrated mainly in developed nations. On the other side of the globalization coin however, a great deal of concerns have escalated …
Global Poverty And The Right To Development In International Law, Patrick Macklem
Global Poverty And The Right To Development In International Law, Patrick Macklem
Patrick Macklem
This Article advances an account of the right to development as a legal instrument that holds the international legal order accountable for its role in the production and reproduction of global poverty. It first distinguishes moral conceptions of human rights, as instruments that protect universal features of humanity, from legal conceptions, which tie their existence to their specification in international instruments promulgated in compliance with international legal norms governing the creation of legal rights and obligations. Despite textual ambiguities in the various instruments in which it finds expression, the right to development vests in individuals and communities who have yet …
Corporate Obligations Under The Human Right To Water, Jernej Letnar Cernic
Corporate Obligations Under The Human Right To Water, Jernej Letnar Cernic
Jernej Letnar Černič
Almost a billion people do not have access to clean and safe water. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation is increasingly being considered a fundamental human right. Corporations play an important role in the realization of the right to water. For example, they can become violators of the right to water where their activities deny access to clean and safe water or where water prices increase without warning. Corporations can have a positive or negative impact on the human rights of individuals, wider communities and indigenous peoples. This paper argues that corporations bear a certain responsibility for the realization …
The Right To Food And Buyer Power, Aravind Ganesh
The Right To Food And Buyer Power, Aravind Ganesh
Aravind Ganesh
Modern global food supply chains are characterised by extreme levels of concentration in the middle of those chains. This paper argues that such concentration leads to excessive buyer power, which harms the consumers and food producers at the ends of the supply chains. This paper argues that the harms suffered by farmers are serious enough as to constitute violations of the international human right to food as it is expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Political Rights, and further argues that world competition law regimes cannot ignore these human rights …