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This book explores the persistence of the governance gap with
respect to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational
extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance. The
authors launch their account with a fascinating case study of
Talisman Energy's experience in Sudan, informed by their own
experience as members of the 1999 Canadian Assessment Mission to
Sudan (Harker Mission). Drawing on new governance, reflexive law
and responsive law theories, the authors assess legal and other
non-binding governance mechanisms that have emerged since that
time, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights. They conclude that such mechanisms are incapable of
systematically preventing human rights violating behaviour by
transnational corporations, or of assuring accountability of these
actors or recompense for victims of such violations. The authors
contend that home state regulation, while not a silver bullet, has
a crucial role to play in regulating such conduct. They pick up
where UN Special Representative John Ruggie's Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights left off, and propose an innovative,
robust and adaptable template for strengthening the regulatory
framework of home states. Their model draws insights from the
theoretical literature, leverages existing public, private,
transnational, national, 'soft' and hard regulatory tools, and
harnesses the specific strengths of state-based governance. This
book will be of interest to academics, policy makers, students,
civil society and business leaders.
This book explores the persistence of the governance gap with
respect to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational
extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance. The
authors launch their account with a fascinating case study of
Talisman Energy's experience in Sudan, informed by their own
experience as members of the 1999 Canadian Assessment Mission to
Sudan (Harker Mission). Drawing on new governance, reflexive law
and responsive law theories, the authors assess legal and other
non-binding governance mechanisms that have emerged since that
time, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights. They conclude that such mechanisms are incapable of
systematically preventing human rights violating behaviour by
transnational corporations, or of assuring accountability of these
actors or recompense for victims of such violations. The authors
contend that home state regulation, while not a silver bullet, has
a crucial role to play in regulating such conduct. They pick up
where UN Special Representative John Ruggie's Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights left off, and propose an innovative,
robust and adaptable template for strengthening the regulatory
framework of home states. Their model draws insights from the
theoretical literature, leverages existing public, private,
transnational, national, 'soft' and hard regulatory tools, and
harnesses the specific strengths of state-based governance. This
book will be of interest to academics, policy makers, students,
civil society and business leaders.
'Either you are with us or you are with the Terrorists ' President
Bush exclaimed in a joint session of Congress ten days after the
September 11 attacks. Even though the war on terrorism and the
discourse surrounding it were ostensibly unleashed to protect
freedom and enhance democracy, they have actually empowered
authoritarian elements of state power and relegated human rights to
the margins of the political arena. InFrom the Margins of
Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Neve Gordon
assembles work of leading intellectuals and rights activists from
around the globe. While highlighting the importance of human
rights, each essay in this volume also encourages a critical
perspective, stretching, as it were, the conception of human rights
beyond its current borders. Whether it's Iranian premier, Mohammad
Khatami, writing on the clash of civilizations, Ytienne Balibar
thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism, or Ruchama
Marton discussing the relation between human rights and psychiatry,
this book comprises a challenge to some of the dominant worldviews
circulating in the west. Anyone studying human rights or
globalization in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political
science, political theory, economy and sociology should have a copy
of this volume.
"Either you are with us or you are with the Terrorists " President
Bush exclaimed in a joint session of Congress ten days after the
September 11 attacks. Even though the war on terrorism and the
discourse surrounding it were ostensibly unleashed to protect
freedom and enhance democracy, they have actually empowered
authoritarian elements of state power and relegated human rights to
the margins of the political arena. InFrom the Margins of
Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Neve Gordon
assembles work of leading intellectuals and rights activists from
around the globe. While highlighting the importance of human
rights, each essay in this volume also encourages a critical
perspective, stretching, as it were, the conception of human rights
beyond its current borders. Whether it's Iranian premier, Mohammad
Khatami, writing on the clash of civilizations, Etienne Balibar
thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism, or Ruchama
Marton discussing the relation between human rights and psychiatry,
this book comprises a challenge to some of the dominant worldviews
circulating in the west. Anyone studying human rights or
globalization in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political
science, political theory, economy and sociology should have a copy
of this volume."
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