Description
Book SynopsisGlobalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relations. This transformation has had a significant impact on the practice of trade law, financial regulation, and environmental law but relatively little effect on one area of law and regulation: human rights.
Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations examines both the international and domestic foundations of human rights law. What other contemporary human rights debates have almost totally ignored is that in an increasingly interdependent world—where public and private international actors have great influence on the lives of individuals everywhere—it is insufficient to assess only the record of domestic governments in human rights. It is equally important to assess the effect of actions taken by intergovernmental organizations, international private entities, and foreign states.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
—Sigrun Skogly and Mark Gibney
Chapter 1. Obligations of States to Prevent and Prohibit Torture in an Extraterritorial Perspective
—Manfred Nowak
Chapter 2. Obligations to Protect the Right to Life: Constructing a Rule of Transfer Regarding Small Arms and Light Weapons
—Barbara Frey
Chapter 3. Growing Barriers: International Refugee Law
—Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Chapter 4. Diagonal Environmental Rights
—John H. Knox
Chapter 5. The Human Rights Responsibility of International Assistance and Cooperation in Health
—Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Paul Hunt, and Rajat Khosla
Chapter 6. The World Food Crisis and the Right to Adequate Food
—Michael Windfuhr
Chapter 7. Labor Standards and Extraterritoriality: Cambodian Textile Exports and the International Labour Organization
—Virginia A. Leary
Chapter 8. A Sort of Homecoming: The Right to Housing
—Malcolm Langford
Chapter 9. Protecting Rights in the Face of Scarcity: The Right to Water
—Amanda Cahill
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
