International human rights law Part 18

 

Book Review: Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice By Sally Engle Merry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 269 pp. $20 paperback. ISBN 0-226-52074-9
Hamsa M. Murthy
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Volume 4, Number 1, February 2008 p.127-130

PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW: LESSONS FROM THE CASE OF AWAS TINGNI V. NICARAGUA
Leonardo J. Alvarado
Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law
Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2007 p.609

REIMAGINING WORKERS’ HUMAN RIGHTS: TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZING FOR A SOCIALLY AWARE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Dean Hubbard
Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal
Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 2008 p.1

This article illustrates a strategy to reconceptualize workers’ rights activism to achieve systematic transformation of the global political economy emphasizing the disproportionate toll of neo-liberal economics on women, poor people, and people of color. The first section demonstrates the way in which existing structures in International human rights law can work to provide a normative foundation to this goal. The second section emphasizes the essential next step toward reaching this transformation in what the author terms, Socially Aware Global Economy (SAGE) organizing. SAGE organizing first, reimagines the labor movement through grass roots, transnational organizing, second, revitalizes economic human rights law by incorporating legal work and transformative organizing, and third, facilitates popular participation in the construction of alternative institutions and policies. These elements provide a framework through which global workers may find courage, and egalitarian, popular-democratic, systemic economic, and political transformation is possible.

Decaux (E.), Dieng (A.) & Sow (M.) (eds.), From Human Rights to International Criminal Law . Studies in Honour of an African Jurist, the Late Judge Laity Kama Des droits de l’homme au droit international pénal Etudes en l’honneur d’un juriste africain, feu le juge Laity Kama, 2007.
African Yearbook of International Law
Volume 14, 2006 p.387-392

Stamatopoulou (E.), Cultural Rights in International Law. Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Beyond, 2007.
African Yearbook of International Law
Volume 14, 2006 p.409-411

The Emergence of Customary International Law Recognizing Corporate Liability for Violations of International Human Rights and Environmental Law
Kathleen Morris
Gonzaga Journal of International Law
Volume 11, Issue 1, 2007-2008

“With the exception of a handful of nation-states, multinationals are alone in possessing the size, technology, and economic reach necessary to influence human affairs on a global basis.”Half of the world’s 100 greatest powers are transnational (or multinational) corporations. The vast financial power and economic influence of transnational corporations (TNCs) enables them to affect human rights and the environment in a fundamental way.

International Criminal Tribunals at the Regional Level: Lessons from International Human Rights Law
Richard Burchill
New Zealand Yearbook of International Law
Volume 4, 2007 p.25

Human Rights in the Trenches: Using International Human Rights Law in “Everyday” Legal Aid Cases
Martha F. Davis
Clearinghouse Review
Volume 41, Numbers 7-8, November-December 2007 p.414

International human rights law is increasingly relevant in U.S. courts. In both state and federal courts a growing number of judges welcome and even encourage arguments that rely on international law and Treaties , even Treaties that the United States has not ratified. Raising claims under international human rights law can help advocates conceptualize “everyday” poverty law cases through a broader framework and strengthen claims made under domestic law.

Concurrent Application of International Human Rights Law and International humanitarian law : Victims in search of a forum
Jean-Marie Henckaerts
Human Rights & International Legal Discourse
Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2007 p.95

The Historical Origins, Convergence and Interrelationship of International Human Rights Law, International humanitarian law , International Criminal Law and Public International Law and Their Application Since the Nineteenth Century
Jeremy Sarkin
Human Rights & International Legal Discourse
Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2007 p.125

Special Issue: Parallel Applicability of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law
Israel Law Review
Volume 40, Number 2, Summer 2007

Introduction to the Symposium on International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: Exploring Parallel Application
David Kretzmer, Rotem Giladi and Yuval Shany
Israel Law Review
Volume 40, Number 2, Summer 2007 p.306

The Interplay between International humanitarian law and International Human Rights Law in Situations of Armed Conflict
Cordula Droege
Israel Law Review
Volume 40, Number 2, Summer 2007 p.310

 

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Customary International Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, International human rights law, International humanitarian law, International humanitarian law, Treaties.