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Author : Michael Likosky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511568886
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book Law, Infrastructure, and Human Rights written by Michael Likosky and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael B. Likosky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458647
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights written by Michael B. Likosky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From attacks on oil infrastructure in post-war reconstruction Iraq to the laying of gas pipelines in the Amazon Rainforest through indigenous community villages, infrastructure projects are sites of intense human rights struggles. Many state and non-state actors have proposed solutions for handling human rights problems in the context of specific infrastructure projects. Solutions have been admired for being lofty in principle; however, they have been judged wanting in practice. This book analyzes how human rights are handled in varied contexts and then assesses the feasibility of a common international institutional solution under the auspices of the United Nations to the alleged problem of the inability to translate human rights into practice.
Author : Olga Martin-Ortega
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802205519
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sustainable Public Procurement of Infrastructure and Human Rights written by Olga Martin-Ortega and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book addresses the links between sustainability and human rights in the context of infrastructure projects and uncovers the human rights gap in every stage of public procurement processes to deliver on infrastructure assets or services.
Author : Eric Posner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199313466
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Twilight of Human Rights Law written by Eric Posner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant mode of international moral criticism. Well-known violators like Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan have sat on the U.N. Council on Human Rights. But it's not just the usual suspects that flagrantly disregard the treaties. Brazil pursues extrajudicial killings. South Africa employs violence against protestors. India tolerate child labor and slavery. The United States tortures. In The Twilight of Human Rights Law--the newest addition to Oxford's highly acclaimed Inalienable Rights series edited by Geoffrey Stone--the eminent legal scholar Eric A. Posner argues that purposefully unenforceable human rights treaties are at the heart of the world's failure to address human rights violations. Because countries fundamentally disagree about what the public good requires and how governments should allocate limited resources in order to advance it, they have established a regime that gives them maximum flexibility--paradoxically characterized by a huge number of vague human rights that encompass nearly all human activity, along with weak enforcement machinery that churns out new rights but cannot enforce any of them. Posner looks to the foreign aid model instead, contending that we should judge compliance by comprehensive, concrete metrics like poverty reduction, instead of relying on ambiguous, weak, and easily manipulated checklists of specific rights. With a powerful thesis, a concise overview of the major developments in international human rights law, and discussions of recent international human rights-related controversies, The Twilight of Human Rights Law is an indispensable contribution to this important area of international law from a leading scholar in the field.
Author : Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811373507
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka, Human Rights and the United Nations written by Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the engagement between the United Nations’ human rights machinery and the respective governments since Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) joined the United Nations. Sri Lanka has a long and rich history of engagement with international human rights instruments. However, despite its active membership in the UN, the country’s post-colonial trials and tribulations are emblematic of the limited influence the international organisation has exerted on this country in the Global South. Assessing the impact of this international engagement on the country’s human rights infrastructure and situation, the book outlines Sri Lanka’s colonial and post-colonial development. It then considers the development of a domestic human rights infrastructure in the country. It also examines and analyzes Sri Lanka’s engagement with the UN’s treaty-based and charter-based human rights bodies, before offering conclusions concerning the impact of said engagement. The book offers an innovative approach to gauging the impact of international human rights engagement, while also taking into account the colonial and post-colonial imperatives that have partly dictated governmental behaviour. By doing so, the book seeks to combine and analyse international human rights law, post-colonial critique, studies on biopower, and critical approaches to international law. It will be a useful resource not only for scholars of international law, but also for practitioners and activists working in this area.
Author : Miichael B. Likosky
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904740730X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Privatising Development written by Miichael B. Likosky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the shift since the 1980s away from state-financed and towards privatised international infrastructure projects. An interdisciplinary group of contributors look at the relationship between privatisation and human rights in diverse national settings and in multiple sectors of the economy. These issues are explored through international organisation frameworks and internal policies, legislative guides, contracts, and public-private partnerships. The roles of the World Bank, MIGA, export credit agencies, the UN Commission on International Trade Law, credit ratings agencies, international banks, TNCs, NGOs, community groups and state agencies are examined.
Author : Jonathan Lazar
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249232
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology written by Jonathan Lazar and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implicit in several human rights instruments and is featured prominently in Articles 9 and 21 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The right to access ICT, moreover, invokes complementary civil and human rights issues: freedom of expression; freedom to information; political participation; civic engagement; inclusive education; the right to access the highest level of scientific and technological information; and participation in social and cultural opportunities. Despite the ready availability and minimal cost of technology to enable people with disabilities to access ICT on an equal footing as consumers without disabilities, prevailing practice around the globe continues to result in their exclusion. Questions and complexities may also arise where technologies advance ahead of existing laws and policies, where legal norms are established but not yet implemented, or where legal rights are defined but clear technical implementations are not yet established. At the intersection of human-computer interaction, disability rights, civil rights, human rights, international development, and public policy, the volume's contributors examine crucial yet underexplored areas, including technology access for people with cognitive impairments, public financing of information technology, accessibility and e-learning, and human rights and social inclusion. Contributors: John Bertot, Peter Blanck, Judy Brewer, Joyram Chakraborty, Tim Elder, Jim Fruchterman, G. Anthony Giannoumis, Paul Jaeger, Sanjay Jain, Deborah Kaplan, Raja Kushalnagar, Jonathan Lazar, Fredric I. Lederer, Janet E. Lord, Ravi Malhotra, Jorge Manhique, Mirriam Nthenge, Joyojeet Pal, Megan A. Rusciano, David Sloan, Michael Ashley Stein, Brian Wentz, Marco Winckler, Mary J. Ziegler.
Author : Daniel D. Bradlow
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9041128816
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book International Financial Institutions and International Law written by Daniel D. Bradlow and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental recognition in this book is that the issue of what international legal principles are applicable to the operations of the IFIs is an important topic that would benefit from more rigorous study. Twelve deeply committed contributors - whose work spans the academic, policy, and activist spectrum - suggest that a better understanding of these legal issues could help both the organizations and their Member States structure their transactions in ways that are more compatible with their developmental objectives and their international responsibilities.
Author : Michael Likosky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780754647812
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Government Participation in Privatisation written by Michael Likosky and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As governments again take a more proactive role in major projects, this volume systematically examines infrastructure privatisation, exploring the significance of partial reversion to state control from the perspective of human rights advancement.
Author : Sharif Bhuiyan
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004258248
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book International Law and Developing Countries written by Sharif Bhuiyan and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates Kamal Hossain’s lifelong and significant contribution to the development of international law and the cause of developing countries. It brings together an interview with Hossain by the editors, and thirteen essays written in his honour by scholars representing a wide spectrum of expertise in international law. The interview provides an introduction to the rich and varied life of a statesman, a drafter of his country’s constitution, and an acclaimed constitutional and international lawyer. The subjects covered in the essays include the new international economic order (NIEO), human rights, counter-terrorism, climate change, oil and gas law, arbitration, law of the sea, international trade law and judicial reform. These essays offer important perspectives on the issues addressed.
