Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0812242157 ISBN 13 : 9780812242157

Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010

Synopsis

Globalization 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.

From this standpoint, contributors to this book address how states' actions or omissions may affect the prospects of individuals in foreign states and asks important questions: To what extent do agricultural policies of rich countries influence the right to food in poorer countries? How do decisions to screen asylum seekers outside state borders affect refugee rights? How does cooperation among different states in the war on terror influence individuals' rights to be free from torture? This volume presents a brief for a more complex and updated approach to the protection of human rights worldwide.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Gibney is Belk Distinguished Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of several books on international affairs and human rights, including The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Sigrun Skogly is Professor of Human Rights Law at Lancaster University and is the author of a number of publications, including Beyond National Borders: States' Human Rights Obligations in International Cooperation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0812242157
• ISBN 13: 9780812242157
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Gibney Mark, Skogly Sigrun
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible