Download or read book Multinationales en finir avec l impunit written by Frédéric THOMAS and published by Syllepse. This book was released on 2023-01-05T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un traité régulant les activités des entreprises transnationales en matière de droits humains est en cours de négociation au sein de l’ONU. Alors que se multiplient les mesures nationales imposant un «devoir de vigilance» contraignant aux entreprises, une directive européenne allant dans le même sens est discutée. Autant de signes de la volonté des États, sous la pression des mouvements sociaux, de (re)prendre quelque peu le contrôle. La remise en question du pouvoir de l’acteur économique le plus puissant de la globalisation néolibérale marque-t-elle une nouvelle phase de l’ordre mondial?? Au cours de ces dernières années, l’impact et l’impunité des grandes entreprises devenait plus visible, tout comme leurs violations des droits humains, sociaux, économiques et environnementaux. Leur image auprès du grand public du Nord s’est largement détériorée. Leur prétendue autorégulation est apparue pour ce qu’elle est, un mythe. Mais les multinationales ne continuent pas moins de bénéficier de politiques publiques accommodantes, voire complices, et d’une architecture économique mondiale à leur avantage, sinon à leur service, tandis que les organisations sociales, plus encore dans les pays du Sud, n’ont toujours pas un véritable accès à la justice. Au-delà du contrôle des acteurs économiques, l’enjeu est la priorité aux droits humains par rapport au commerce et le renversement de l’asymétrie des pouvoirs. Or, dans les faits, cette dernière se maintient à travers un ensemble de dispositifs véhiculant l’influence des bailleurs de fonds en matière de politique économique et budgétaire, au détriment de la souveraineté des pays concernés et des investissements publics considérables qu’exigent la lutte contre les inégalités et la catastrophe environnementale.
Download or read book Multinationales written by Bernard Duterme and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multinationales written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Un traité régulant les activités des entreprises transnationales en matière de droits humains est en cours de négociation au sein de l'ONU. Alors que se multiplient les mesures nationales imposant un "devoir de vigilance" contraignant aux entreprises, est discutée une directive européenne allant dans le même sens. Autant de signes de la volonté des États, sous la pression des mouvements sociaux, de (re)prendre quelque peu le contrôle. La remise en question du pouvoir de l'acteur économique le plus puissant de la globalisation néolibérale marque-t-elle une nouvelle phase de l'ordre mondial? Au cours de ces dernières années, à mesure que l'impact des grandes entreprises au Sud se faisait plus visible, leurs violations des droits humains, sociaux, économiques et environnementaux, ainsi que leur impunité, plus évidentes, leur image auprès du grand public du Nord s'est largement détériorée, et leur autorégulation est apparue pour ce qu'elle est: un mythe. Mais les multinationales n'en continuent pas moins de bénéficier de politiques publiques accommodantes, voire complices, et d'une architecture économique mondiale à leur avantage, sinon à leur service, tandis que les organisations sociales, plus encore dans les pays du Sud, demeurent sans véritable accès à la justice. Au-delà du contrôle des acteurs économiques, l'enjeu est la priorité aux droits humains sur le commerce, et le renversement de l'asymétrie des pouvoirs. »--
Download or read book Devoir de vigilance written by Olivier Petitjean and published by ECLM. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les multinationales impliquées dans des scandales environnementaux ou liés aux droits humains, tels que la catastrophe de Bhopal ou l’effondrement du Rana Plaza, ont souvent bénéficié d’une totale impunité. Pour tenter de les contraindre à prendre leurs responsabilités, un consortium d’ONG et d’organisations de la société civile s’est constitué en France pour défendre l’idée d’une loi. Adoptée en février 2017, la loi sur le devoir de vigilance des multinationales est l’une des seules législations d’initiative citoyenne qui ait été votée en France. Elle contraint les entreprises donneuses d’ordre à prévenir les risques sociaux, environnementaux et de gouvernance liés à leurs opérations mais qui peuvent aussi s’étendre aux activités de leurs filiales et de leurs partenaires commerciaux. Olivier Petitjean, qui a suivi de près le processus, retrace les grandes étapes de la construction de cette loi. Il la replace dans l’histoire plus longue de la lutte contre l’impunité des multinationales, et tire les leçons en termes de stratégie de la société civile, d’alliances et de confrontation avec le poids des lobbys.
Download or read book Labour Rights as Human Rights written by Philip Alston and published by Collected Courses of the Acade. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are efforts to protect workers' rights compatible with the forces of globalization? How can minimum standards designed to protect labour rights be implemented in a world in which national labour law is more and more at the mercy of international forces beyond its control? And does it makeany difference if we see rights such as the right to freedom of association, to non-discrimination in the workplace, to freedom from child labour, and to safe and healthy working conditions in terms of international human rights law? Or are they more appropriately seen as 'principles' to bepromoted as and where appropriate?The contributors to this volume argue that international agreements and institutions are of central importance if labour rights are to be protected in a globalized economy. But the report cards they give to the World Trade Organization, the European Union, NAFTA, and the Free Trade Agreement of theAmericas are generally very critical. While there is a strong rhetorical commitment to labour rights, at least on the part of the US and the EU, the substance of what has been achieved to date is hardly impressive. The role of the International Labour Organization is central and the authorsexplore some of the options that are open to governments, civil society, and the labour movement in the years ahead.
Download or read book Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility written by Liisa North and published by Between The Lines. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian mining activity in Latin America has exploded over the past decade and a half. Investors have responded to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, state-downsizing, and export promotion encouraged by leading capitalist nations and international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The result, predictably, has been sharp conflicts between the communities affected by mining and their advocates on one side, and the transnational mining companies supported by the local state and the Canadian government on the other. This collection, the most comprehensive in the English-language to date, investigates these conflicts in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Contributors address the related sustainable development, community, corporate, legal, and social issues. A valuable contribution to Latin American development studies, this collection will prove of interest to students and specialists in the field, journalists, NGOs, and policymakers.
Download or read book Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector written by Philipp Fluri and published by DCAF. This book was released on 2003 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Governance of Globalisation written by Pontificia Accademia delle scienze sociali. Plenary Session and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Work written by Thomas Berry and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, particularly the universities and other educational institutions whose role is to guide students into an appreciation rather than an exploitation of the world around them. Berry is the leading spokesperson for the Earth, and his profound ecological insight illuminates the path we need to take in the realms of ethics, politics, economics, and education if both we and the planet are to survive.
Download or read book Insurgent Love written by Ardath Whynacht and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-31T00:00:00Z with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of high-risk intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend and provides an abolitionist frame for the most dangerous forms of intimate partner violence. This book illustrates that the origins of both the carceral state and toxic masculinity are situated in settler colonialism and racial capitalism and sees police homicide and domestic homicide as akin. Describing an experience of domestic homicide in her community and providing a deeply personal analysis of some of the most recent cases of homicide in Canada, the author inhabits the complexity of seeking abolitionist justice. Insurgent Love traces the major risk factors for domestic homicide within the structures of racial capitalism and suggests transformative, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist approaches for safety, prevention and justice.
Download or read book Stuck written by Marc Sommers and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human population today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Devastated by genocide, hailed as a spectacular success, and critiqued for its human rights record, the Central African nation of Rwanda provides a compelling setting for grasping new challenges to the world's youth. Spotlighting failed masculinity, urban desperation, and forceful governance, Marc Sommers tells the dramatic story of young Rwandans who are “stuck,” striving against near-impossible odds to become adults. In Rwandan culture, female youth must wait, often in vain, for male youth to build a house before they can marry. Only then can male and female youth gain acceptance as adults. However, Rwanda's severe housing crisis means that most male youth are on a treadmill toward failure, unable to build their house yet having no choice but to try. What follows is too often tragic. Rural youth face a future as failed adults, while many who migrate to the capital fail to secure a stable life and turn fatalistic about contracting HIV/AIDS. Featuring insightful interviews with youth, adults, and government officials, Stuck tells the story of an ambitious, controlling government trying to govern an exceptionally young and poor population in a densely populated and rapidly urbanizing country. This pioneering book sheds new light on the struggle to come of age and suggests new pathways toward the attainment of security, development, and coexistence in Africa and beyond. Published in association with the United States Institute of Peace
Download or read book State of the World 2010 written by Worldwatch Institute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the environmental and social problems we face today are symptoms of a deeper systemic failing: a dominant cultural paradigm that encourages living in ways that are often directly counter to the realities of a finite planet. This paradigm, typically referred to as 'consumerism,' has already spread to cultures around the world and has led to consumption levels that are vastly unsustainable. If this pattern spreads further there will be little possibility of solving climate change or other environmental problems that are poised to dramatically disrupt human civilization. It will take a sustained, long-term effort to redirect the traditions, social movements and institutions that shape consumer cultures towards becoming cultures of sustainability. These institutions include schools, the media, businesses and governments. Bringing about a cultural shift that makes living sustainably as 'natural' as a consumer lifestyle is today will not only address urgent crises like climate change, it could also tackle other symptoms like extreme income inequity, obesity and social isolation that are not typically seen as environmental problems. State of the World 2010 paints a picture of what this sustainability culture could look like, and how we can - and already are - making the shift.
Download or read book Evening Thoughts written by Thomas Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on our spiritual role in the fate of the planet from “the most provocative figure among the new breed of eco–theologians” (Newsweek). Among the contemporary voices for the Earth, none resonates like that of cultural historian Thomas Berry. His teaching and writings have inspired a generation’s thinking about humankind’s place in the Earth community and the universe, engendering widespread critical acclaim and a documentary film on his life and work. This new collection of essays, from various years and occasions, expands and deepens ideas articulated in his earlier writings and also breaks new ground. Berry opens our eyes to the full dimensions of the ecological crisis, framing it as a crisis of spiritual vision. Applying his formidable erudition in cultural history, science, and comparative religions, he forges a compelling narrative of creation and communion that reconciles modern evolutionary thinking and traditional religious insights concerning our integral role in Earth’s society. While sounding an urgent alarm at our current dilemma, Berry inspires us to reclaim our role as the consciousness of the universe and thereby begin to create a true partnership with the Earth community. With Evening Thoughts, this wise elder has lit another beacon to lead us home. “Thomas Berry is an exemplar in a tradition that includes a diverse group of spiritually radiant individuals (Gandhi, the monk Thomas Merton, the Lakota elder Black Elk), visionaries (Jacques Ellul, Terry Tempest Williams, Rachel Carson), and writers (Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Rebecca Solnit, Loren Eiseley).” —Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams
Download or read book Protecting Labour Rights as Human Rights written by George Politakis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises a collection of papers grouped around four themes: the existing institutional framework for monitoring state compliance with social and economic rights; rethinking methods of supervision and evaluating their impact; international supervision at the time of institutional reform; and future approaches to international regulation and supervision.
Download or read book Managing Epidemics written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zacarias My Brother written by Abd Samad Moussaoui and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in the United States in August 2001. He is currently in a federal prison in Virginia, charged with "conspiring with Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to murder thousands of innocent people in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania." Moussaoui , who trained to be a pilot in Oklahoma, admits to being a member of Al-Qaeda but denies involvement in the events of September 11. He has opted to defend himself. Written by his brother, Zacarias, My Brother tells the story of Zac’s life from birth to the time in 1996 when he broke contact with his family and became deeply involved with Muslim fundamentalists in London. It is a unique document about what it is to grow up a Muslim in Western Europe today and how an extremist is made. In Zacarias, My Brother, author Abd Samad Moussaoui describes the struggle that young Arab men and their families endure in Europe, seeking an education and equal opportunity, only to find most avenues of assimilation effectively barred to people of color. At the same time, he authoritatively details the techniques of the extremist sects that recruit potential terrorist cadres. Members of the Wahhabi sect have perfected a rhetoric that appeals to the wounded pride of these young Arab men, Moussaoui writes—for example, offering funds to help them complete their education. Moussaoui deplores the route taken by his brother. He is not in any way an apologist for terrorism. Even so, he shows convincingly that normal young men can end up terrorists, and suggests how and why this happens. Moussaoui shows with gripping clarity how Wahhabism distorts true Islamic faith and the threat it poses to Islam. And his book strongly suggests that the best defense against terrorist groups like the Wahhabi sect in the future is anything people can do to end racism.
Download or read book Feminism in India written by Maiyatree Chaudhuri and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2005-03-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is an invaluable overview of the rich history of Indian feminism. It brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate feminism in the context of Indian culture, society and politics, and explore its theoretical foundations in India. The inevitable association with western feminism, the status of women in colonial and independent India, and the challenges to Indian feminism posed by globalization and the Hindu Right are discussed at length. It deepens our understanding of why, despite the existence of legal and constitutional rights, women are subject to oppressive practices like dowry.
