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Non-State Actors and Human Rights (Hardcover, New)
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Non-State Actors and Human Rights (Hardcover, New)
Series: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
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Can transnational corporations ignore human rights as long as
governments don't hold them accountable? If the UN is put in charge
of a territory, is it bound by human rights law? Does that body of
law apply to private security contractors who use torture to
achieve their goals? Does the right to freedom of speech apply in a
private shopping mall which has become the modern-day town centre?
Under traditional approaches to human rights, non-State actors are
beyond the direct reach of international human rights law. They
cannot be parties to the relevant treaties and so they are only
bound to the extent that obligations accepted by States can be
applied to them by governments. The result is that entities
including Non-Governmental Organizations, international
organizations such as the UN and the IMF, private security
contractors, and transnational corporations, along with many
others, are generally considered not to be bound directly by human
rights law. This situation threatens to make a mockery of much of
the international system of accountability for human rights
violations. As privatization, outsourcing, and downsizing place
ever more public or governmental functions into the hands of
private actors, the human rights regime must adapt if it is to
maintain its relevance. The contributors to this volume examine the
different approaches that might be taken in order to ensure some
degree of accountability. Making space in the legal regime to take
account of the role of non-State actors is one of the biggest and
most critical challenges facing international law today.
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