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Case studies explore how women's rights shape state responses to
sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help
prevent and combat human trafficking Human trafficking for the sex
trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of
victims each year, disproportionately affecting women and girls.
While the international community has developed an impressive
edifice of human rights law, these laws are not equally recognized
or enforced by all countries. Sex Trafficking and Human Rights
demonstrates that state responsiveness to human trafficking is
shaped by the political, social, cultural, and economic rights
afforded to women in that state. While combatting human trafficking
is a multiscalar problem with a host of conflating variables, this
book shows that a common theme in the effectiveness of state
response is the degree to which women and girls are perceived as,
and actually are, full citizens. By analyzing human trafficking
cases in India, Thailand, Russia, Nigeria, and Brazil, they shed
light on the factors that make some women and girls more
susceptible to traffickers than others. This important book is both
a call to understanding and a call to action: if the international
community and state governments are to responsibly and effectively
combat human trafficking, they must center the equality of women in
national policy.
Paradoxically, many governments that persistently violate human
rights have also ratified international human rights treaties that
empower their citizens to file grievances against them at the
United Nations. Therefore, citizens in rights-repressing regimes
find themselves with the potentially invaluable opportunity to
challenge their government's abuses. Why would rights-violating
governments ratify these treaties and thus afford their citizens
this right? Can the mechanisms provided in these treaties actually
help promote positive changes in human rights? "Insincere
Commitments" uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to
examine the factors contributing to commitment and compliance among
post-Soviet states such as Slovakia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, and
Tajikistan. Heather Smith-Cannoy argues that governments ratify
these treaties insincerely in response to domestic economic
pressures. Signing the treaties is a way to at least temporarily
keep critics of their human rights record at bay while they secure
international economic assistance or more favorable trade terms.
However, she finds that through the specific protocols in the
treaties that grant individuals the right to petition the UN, even
the most insincere state commitments to human rights can give
previously powerless individuals - and the nongovernmental and
intergovernmental organizations that partner with them - an
important opportunity that they would otherwise not have to
challenge patterns of government repression on the global stage.
This insightful book will be of interest to human rights scholars,
students, and practitioners, as well as anyone interested in the
UN, international relations, treaties, and governance.
This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain
period for global human rights and explores the future of
international human rights law and practice. Many Western scholars
are increasingly pessimistic about the future of international
human rights law. However, the contributions to this volume
demonstrate that far from collapsing in the face of duress, the
concept of human rights has endured despite contractions and the
spectre of co-option and manipulation by the powerful. In addition,
law is a malleable tool that is deployed in novel ways to promote
human rights. The book illustrates that the power of human rights
lies not in their essentialized transcendence of time, culture, and
context but in their enduring promise that a more just world can
emerge from sustained and creative struggle through, against, and
at the margins of states, law, and institutions. The key questions
to emerge are not whether human rights law and practice will
survive, but rather what are the forces that sustain, revitalize,
and transform them? And what are human rights in the process of
becoming? This book will be of immense interest to those studying
and researching across Politics, Human Rights, Gender and Law. It
was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human
Rights.
As widespread environmental degradation threatens the basic human
rights of a large proportion of the world's population, we are also
confronting the worst migration crisis in the modern era. Emerging
Threats to Human Rights searches among the interrelated causes of
these overlapping crises. The editor and contributors to this
timely anthology assess how environmental resources, state
violence, and the deprivation of nationality/citizenship are linked
to gain a better understanding of how human rights abuses intersect
with patterns of migration. As some refugees flee violence at home,
they arrive in an asylum country only to experience violence at the
hands of the native population. Likewise, those denied citizenship
rights in their country become vulnerable to human traffickers and
other rights violations when they flee. Bringing together scholars
of resource dilemmas, violence, and citizenship as well as lawyers
and human rights practitioners, Emerging Threats to Human Rights
begins by identifying the core causes of human rights violations
confronting our world today. Chapters also consider whether and to
what extent these emerging threats to human rights serve as drivers
of displacement.
As widespread environmental degradation threatens the basic human
rights of a large proportion of the world's population, we are also
confronting the worst migration crisis in the modern era. Emerging
Threats to Human Rights searches among the interrelated causes of
these overlapping crises. The editor and contributors to this
timely anthology assess how environmental resources, state
violence, and the deprivation of nationality/citizenship are linked
to gain a better understanding of how human rights abuses intersect
with patterns of migration. As some refugees flee violence at home,
they arrive in an asylum country only to experience violence at the
hands of the native population. Likewise, those denied citizenship
rights in their country become vulnerable to human traffickers and
other rights violations when they flee. Bringing together scholars
of resource dilemmas, violence, and citizenship as well as lawyers
and human rights practitioners, Emerging Threats to Human Rights
begins by identifying the core causes of human rights violations
confronting our world today. Chapters also consider whether and to
what extent these emerging threats to human rights serve as drivers
of displacement.
Case studies explore how women's rights shape state responses to
sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help
prevent and combat human trafficking Human trafficking for the sex
trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of
victims each year, disproportionately affecting women and girls.
While the international community has developed an impressive
edifice of human rights law, these laws are not equally recognized
or enforced by all countries. Sex Trafficking and Human Rights
demonstrates that state responsiveness to human trafficking is
shaped by the political, social, cultural, and economic rights
afforded to women in that state. While combatting human trafficking
is a multiscalar problem with a host of conflating variables, this
book shows that a common theme in the effectiveness of state
response is the degree to which women and girls are perceived as,
and actually are, full citizens. By analyzing human trafficking
cases in India, Thailand, Russia, Nigeria, and Brazil, they shed
light on the factors that make some women and girls more
susceptible to traffickers than others. This important book is both
a call to understanding and a call to action: if the international
community and state governments are to responsibly and effectively
combat human trafficking, they must center the equality of women in
national policy.
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