Download or read book International law under review written by Vincent Chetail and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le présent ouvrage est le résultat du programme international de recherche Mondialisation, Migration et Droits de l'Homme financé par le Réseau universitaire international de Genève (RUIG). Le programme a eu lieu dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre la Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation de l'Université de Genève (FPSE) et l'Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales (IUHEI), avec la contribution de l'Académie de droit international humanitaire et des droits humains à Genève, l'Institut d'études politiques et internationales de l'Université de Lausanne (IEPI), le Bureau international du Travail (BIT) et le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR). La recherche intervient à un moment crucial. La migration est placée au coeur de tous les agendas internationaux et nationaux. Les multiples initiatives lancées au sein des Nations Unies, de l'Union européenne et de divers autres forums multilatéraux en témoignent. Elle a réuni durant deux ans (2004-2006) 46 chercheurs provenant de diverses disciplines et régions du monde. Les chercheurs ont intégré une donnée essentielle souvent déniée de la migration : les besoins fondamentaux et le respect des droits de l'homme du migrant. Le contenu de la recherche repose sur deux axes essentiels : un volet « société » (volume I), à vocation pluridisciplinaire, et un volet « droit » (volume II),consacré au droit international des migrations. Chacun de ces axes fait l'objet d'une publication distincte. Le volume II a été réalisé sous la direction de Vincent Chetail. Il procède à une évaluation d'ensemble d'un domaine encore méconnu et souvent négligé des sciences juridiques : le droit international des migrations. La migration permet mieux que tout autre phénomène social de saisir la vie du droit international, ses points de rupture et la dynamique qui l'anime. La présente publication s'interroge sur la place et l'effectivité des droits fondamentaux des migrants, en prenant pour appui le droit international existant, ses failles et ses orientations possibles. L'étude a été réalisée, à cette fin, autour de quatre pistes de réflexion. Une première partie retrace les principes et perspectives du droit international des migrations, dans ses dimensions historiques, conceptuelles et normatives. La deuxième partie est consacrée à l'un des principaux enjeux de notre temps : la question sécuritaire au sens large et la migration dite irrégulière qui lui est si souvent associée. Les régimes spécifiques de protection internationale pour les travailleurs migrants et les réfugiés sont également l'objet d'un examen à part entière, tandis que la dernière partie est dédiée à l'un des domaines où les violations des droits de l'homme sont les plus fréquentes : la détention et le renvoi des migrants. L'Académie de droit international humanitaire et des droits humains à Genève (anciennement Centre universitaire de droit international humanitaire) a été créé par une convention passée en juillet 2002 entre la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Genève et l'Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales. L'Université de Lausanne et le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge contribuent à la réalisation de ses objectifs. La mission de l'Académie porte principalement sur l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche académique dans les domaines suivants : le droit international humanitaire, les droits de l'homme, le droit de la sécurité collective et du maintien de la paix, le droit pénal international, ainsi que le droit des réfugiés et des personnes déplacées.

Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development written by Olivier de Schutter and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect on developing countries of the arrival of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been a subject of controversy for decades in the development community. The debate over the relationship between FDI in developing countries and the progress of these countries towards human development is an ongoing and often heated one. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective combining insights from international investment law, human rights law and economics, this book offers an original contribution to the debate. It explores how improvements ...

Download or read book Constructing a Sociology of Translation written by Michaela Wolf and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The view of translation as a socially regulated activity has opened up a broad field of research in the last few years. This volume deals with central questions of the new domain and aims to contribute to the conceptualisation of a general sociology of translation. Interdisciplinary in approach, it discusses the role of major representatives of sociology like Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Latour, Bernard Lahire, Anthony Giddens or Niklas Luhmann in establishing a theoretical framework for a sociology of translation. Drawing on methodologies from sociology and integrating them into translation studies, the book questions some of the established categories in this discipline and calls for a redefinition of long-assumed principles. The contributions show the social involvement of translation in various fields and focus especially on the translator s position in an emerging sociology of translation, Bourdieu s influence in conceptualising this new sub-discipline, methodological questions and a sociologically oriented meta-discussion of translation studies.

Download or read book The Governance Gap written by Penelope Simons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the persistence of the governance gap with respect to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance. The authors launch their account with a fascinating case study of Talisman Energy’s experience in Sudan, informed by their own experience as members of the 1999 Canadian Assessment Mission to Sudan (Harker Mission). Drawing on new governance, reflexive law and responsive law theories, the authors assess legal and other non-binding governance mechanisms that have emerged since that time, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. They conclude that such mechanisms are incapable of systematically preventing human rights violating behaviour by transnational corporations, or of assuring accountability of these actors or recompense for victims of such violations. The authors contend that home state regulation, while not a silver bullet, has a crucial role to play in regulating such conduct. They pick up where UN Special Representative John Ruggie’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights left off, and propose an innovative, robust and adaptable template for strengthening the regulatory framework of home states. Their model draws insights from the theoretical literature, leverages existing public, private, transnational, national, ‘soft’ and hard regulatory tools, and harnesses the specific strengths of state-based governance. This book will be of interest to academics, policy makers, students, civil society and business leaders.

Download or read book OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises 2011 Edition written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are the world’s foremost, government-backed instrument for responsible business conduct. This 2011 edition includes new recommendations on human rights abuse and company responsibility for their supply chains.

Download or read book Safeguarding Traditional Cultures written by Peter Seitel and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings from a conference "A global assessment of the 1989 recommendation on the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore" held at the Smithsonian Institution June 27-30 1999. The purpose of the conference was to assess the implementation of the Recommendation (an international normative instrument adopted by UNESCO in 1989), to bring together points of view and perspectives on the Recommendaion from around the world, and suggest ways in which the Recommendation might develop in the future so that its purpose, the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore, might be achieved.

Download or read book The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child written by Thoko Kaime and published by PULP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: A socio-legal perspectiveby Thoko Kaime2009ISBN: 978-0-9814420-4-4Pages: xii 247Print version: AvailableElectronic version: Free PDF available.

Download or read book The Future of Business and Human Rights written by Jernej Letnar Černič and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents theoretical and practical considerations on whether it would be feasible to adopt an international treaty on business and human rights to address corporate human rights abuses.

Download or read book The Governance of International Migration written by Ayşen Üstübici and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As concern about immigration has grown within Europe in recent years, the European Union has brought pressure to bear on countries that are allegedly not sufficiently governing irregular migration with and within their borders. This book looks at that issue in Turkey and Morocco, showing how it affects migrants in these territories, and how migrant illegality has been produced by law, practiced and negotiated by the state, other civil society actors, and by migrants themselves. Ay?en Üstübici focuses on a number of different aspects of migrant illegality, such as experiences of deportation, participation in economic life, and access to health care and education, in order to reveal migrants' strategies and the various ways they seek to legitimise their stay.

Download or read book The Business and Human Rights Landscape written by Jena Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book offering a comprehensive historical and contemporary analysis of the emerging business and human rights field.

Download or read book The Work of the International Law Commission written by Vereinte Nationen International Law Commission and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Right to a Healthy Environment written by David R. Boyd and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada's green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect human health, the well-being of the planet, and the interests of future generations.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy written by Ken Conca and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.

Download or read book International Human Rights Law written by Olivier De Schutter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading textbook on international human rights law is now better than ever. The content has been fully updated and now provides more detailed coverage of substantive human rights, along with new sections on the war on terror and on the progressive realization of economic and social rights, making this the most comprehensive book in the field. It has a new, more student-friendly text design and has retained the features which made the first edition so engaging and accessible, including the concise and critical style, and questions and case studies within each chapter, as well as suggestions for further reading. Written by De Schutter, whose extensive experience working in the field and teaching the subject in both the US and EU gives him a unique perspective and valuable insight into the requirements of lecturers and students. This is an essential tool for all students of international human rights law.

Download or read book The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights written by H. ten Have and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2005, UNESCO Member States adopted by acclamation the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. For the first time in the history of bioethics, some 190 countries committed themselves and the international community to respect and apply fundamental ethical principles related to medicine, the life sciences and associated technologies. This publication provides a new impetus to the dissemination of the Declaration, and is part of the organisation's continuous effort to contribute to the understanding of its principles worldwide. The authors, who were almost all involved in the elaboration of the text of the Declaration, were asked to respond on each article: Why was it included? What does it mean? How can it be applied? Their responses shed light on the historical background of the text and its evolution throughout the drafting process. They also provide a reflection on its relevance to previous declarations and bioethical literature, and its potential interpretation and application in challenging and complex bioethical debates.

Download or read book VAS written by Steve Tomasula and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed in the colors of flesh and blood, VAS: An Opera in Flatland--a hybrid image-text novel--demonstrates how differing ways of imagining the body generate diverse stories of history, gender, politics, and, ultimately, the literature of who we are. A constantly surprising, VAS combines a variety of voices, from journalism and libretto to poem and comic book. Often these voices meet in counterpoint, and the meaning of the narrative emerges from their juxtapositions, harmonies, or discords. Utilizing a wide and historical sweep of representations of the body--from pedigree charts to genetic sequences--VAS is, finally, the story of finding one's identity within the double helix of language and lineage.

Download or read book Globalization Ethical and Institutional Concerns written by Pontificia Accademia delle scienze sociali. Plenary Session and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: