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This innovative and timely Handbook brings together the work of 25
leading human rights scholars from all over the world to consider a
broad range of human rights topics. The book discusses a wide range
of contemporary themes, for example jurisdictional issues, such as
human rights in the private sphere and extra-territorial
obligations. It also deals with global and regional human rights
systems, intersections with other areas of international law and
practice, such as international criminal law and globalisation, and
specific human rights topics including terrorism and indigenous
peoples. Providing an excellent grounding for scholars seeking to
understand the major topics within the discipline, this topical
book is accessible to the novice human rights scholar, yet of great
interest to the most seasoned human rights researcher. It will
strongly appeal to law academics as well as students and
practitioners of human rights.
This innovative and timely Handbook brings together the work of 25
leading human rights scholars from all over the world to consider a
broad range of human rights topics. The book discusses a wide range
of contemporary themes, for example jurisdictional issues, such as
human rights in the private sphere and extra-territorial
obligations. It also deals with global and regional human rights
systems, intersections with other areas of international law and
practice, such as international criminal law and globalisation, and
specific human rights topics including terrorism and indigenous
peoples. Providing an excellent grounding for scholars seeking to
understand the major topics within the discipline, this topical
book is accessible to the novice human rights scholar, yet of great
interest to the most seasoned human rights researcher. It will
strongly appeal to law academics as well as students and
practitioners of human rights.
This collection of essays from leading academics examines the
connection between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and human
rights issues, a topic which has provoked significant debate,
particularly in the decade since the collapsed WTO talks in Seattle
in 1999. The editors argue that a true appreciation of the salient
issues requires consideration of disciplines beyond the law, such
as economics, political science and philosophy. This book builds on
previous trade/human rights projects by adding that
interdisciplinary dimension. Bringing together trade scholars and
human rights scholars from legal and interdisciplinary
perspectives, The World Trade Organization and Human Rights will be
an invaluable research tool for international scholars in human
rights and trade, NGOs in the development sector and human rights,
trade organizations and trade practitioners.
of the people of Aathi) as the overarching metaphor that mirrors
the degradation of the society. Between the polarities of
attachment and abandonment, darkness and light, predatory progress
and the sheer will to survive, unfolds the saga of a people
confronted by the behemoth of progress driven by Kumaran, who seeks
to abandon water-life, threatening its very existence. But such is
the author's faith in the resilience of life and nature and her
belief in the futility of trying to control something as fluid and
eternal as water-life that what promises to be the end is also the
hope of a new beginning. This is the first instance in Indian
literary history of a novel in a regional language being translated
and published concurrently in English.
Since the mid-1980s,beginning with the unsuccessful Union Carbide
litigation in the USA, litigants have been exploring ways of
holding multinational corporations [MNCs] liable for offshore human
rights abuses in the courts of the companies' home States. The
highest profile cases have been the human rights claims brought
against MNCs (such as Unocal, Shell, Rio Tinto, Coca Cola, and
Talisman) under the Alien Tort Claims Act in the United States.
Such claims also raise issues under customary international law
(which may be directly applicable in US federal law) and the
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations [RICO] statute.
Another legal front is found in the USA, England and Australia,
where courts have become more willing to exercise jurisdiction over
transnational common law tort claims against home corporations.
Futhermore, a corporation's human rights practices were indirectly
targeted under trade practices law in groundbreaking litigation in
California against sportsgoods manufacturer Nike. This new study
examines these developments and the procedural arguments (eg
regarding personal jurisdiction and especially forum non
conveniens) which have been used to block litigation, as well as
the principles which can be gleaned from cases which have settled.
The analysis is important for human rights victims in order to know
the boundaries of possible available legal redress. It is also
important for MNCs, which must now take human rights into account
in managing the legal risks (as well as moral and reputation risks)
associated with offshore projects.
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Budhini (Hardcover)
Sarah Joseph; Translated by Sangeetha Sreenivasan
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R453
Discovery Miles 4 530
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On 6 December 1959, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru went to Dhanbad
district in Jharkhand to inaugurate the Panchet Dam across the
Damodar river. A fifteen-year-old girl, Budhini, chosen by the
Damodar Valley Corporation welcomed him with a garland and placed a
tikka on his forehead. When these ceremonial gestures were
interpreted as an act of matrimony, the fifteen-year-old was
ostracized by her village and let go from her job as a construction
worker, citing violation of Santal traditions. Budhini was outlawed
for 'marrying outside her community'. Budhini Mejhan's is the tale
of an uprooted life, told here through the contemporary lens of
Rupi Murmu, a young journalist distantly related to her and
determined to excavate her story. In this reimagined history, Sarah
Joseph evokes Budhini with vigour, authority and panache, conjuring
up a robust and endearing feminine character and reminding us of
the lives and stories that should never be forgotten. Translated by
her daughter, Sangeetha Sreenivasan, a fiercely individualistic
novelist herself, Sarah Joseph's Budhini powerfully invokes the
wider bio-politics of our relentless modernization and the dangers
of being indifferent to ecological realities.
Now in its third edition, this book is the authoritative text on
one of the world's most important human rights treaties, the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Covenant
is of universal relevance. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in
1966 and in force from 1976, it commits the signatories and parties
to respect the civil and political freedoms and rights of
individuals. Monitored by the UN Human Rights Committee, the
Covenant ratified by the majority of UN member states. The book
meticulously extracts and analyzes the jurisprudence over nearly
forty years of the UN Human Rights Committee, on each of the
various ICCPR rights, including the right to life, the right to
freedom from torture, the right of freedom of religion, the right
of freedom of expression, and the right to privacy, as well as
admissibility criteria under the First Optional Protocol. Key
miscellaneous issues, such as reservations, derogations, and
denunciations, are also thoroughly assessed. Comprehensively
indexed and cross-referenced, this book offers elegant and
straight-forward access to the jurisprudence of the Human Rights
Committee and other UN human rights treaty bodies. Presented in a
clear and illuminating manner, it will be of use to the judiciary,
human rights practitioners, human rights activists, government
institutions, academics, and students alike.
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