1st Edition

Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations Alternative Judgments

Edited By Mark Gibney, Wouter Vandenhole Copyright 2014
402 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

Human rights have traditionally been framed in a vertical perspective with the duties of States confined to their own citizens or residents. Obligations beyond this territorial space have been viewed as either being absent or minimalistic at best. However, the territorial paradigm has now been seriously challenged in recent years in part because of the increasing awareness of the ability of... Read more

1. Introduction: Transnational human rights obligations, Mark Gibney and Wouter Vandenhole  Part 1: International Economic Governance Structures  2. U.S. Trade Santions (World Trade Organization, Panel, Claire Buggenhoudt  3. Biofuel and the Right to Food (World Trade Organization, Panel), Alexia Herwig  4. Land Grabbing and Gender Issues (International Finance Corporation and Compliance Advisor Ombudsman), Joss Saunders  Part 2: Global (Human Rights) Monitoring Bodies  5. Putting an End to Victims without Borders: Child pornography (Committee on the Rights of the Child), Gamze Erdem Türkelli  6. Extraterritorial Shared Responsibility for the Right to Health (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), Rachel Hammonds and Gorik Ooms  7. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Nuba Peoples (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), Jernej Letnar Černič  8. "Only the Little People Pay Taxes": Tax evasion and Switzerland’s extraterritorial obligations to economic, social and cultural rights (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), Nicholas Lusiani  9.Labour Rights in a Transnational Perspective (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), Arne Vandenbogaerde  10. Climate Change (Human Rights Committee, Ad hoc Conciliation Commission), Margreet Wewerinke  11. Land Grabbing in Uganda by a Multinational Coporation (World Court of Justice), Christopher Mbazira  13. Structural Adjustment and Farmers' Suicide in India (International Court of Justice), Anita Punj  14. (Economic) Crimes against Humanity (International Criminal Court), Michael Wabwile  Part 3: Regional Human Rights Monitoring Bodies  15. Public Duties for Private Wrongs: Regulation of multinationals (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights), Takele Soboka Bulto  16. Forced Evictions in Zimbabwe (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights), Khulekani Moyo  17. Land Grabbing in South America (Inter-American Human Rights Commission), Ana Maria Suarez-Franco  18/ Enforcing Extraterritorial Social Rights in the Eurozone Crisis (European Committee of Social Rights), Matthias Sant'Ana  19. Military Interventions in Non-European States (European Court of Human Rights), Nico Moons  Part 4: Domestic Courts  20. Extraordinary Rendition (U.S. Supreme Court), Mark Gibney

Biography

Mark Gibney is the Belk Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina -Asheville. Since 1984, Gibney has directed the Political Terror Scale (PTS), which measures levels of physical integrity violations in more than 185 countries (www.politicalterrorscale.org).

Wouter Vandenhole holds the UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and is the Co-Director of the Law and Development Research Group.