Global Responsibility for Human Rights: World Poverty and the Development of International Law

ISBN-13: 9780199284429 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 250 str.

Margot Salomon

Opis

World poverty represents a failure of the international community to see half of the global population secure their basic socio-economic rights. Yet international law foresees cooperation as essential to the realization of these human rights. In an era of considerable interdependence and entrenched economic and political advantage, the particular features of contemporary world poverty give rise to pressing questions about the scope, evolution, and application of the international law of human rights, and the attribution of global responsibility.
This book considers the evolving nature of public international law and human rights with respect to international cooperation as a basis for addressing the role and responsibility of the international community in the creation of an environment conducive to a human-centered globalization. It offers a detailed examination of the historically controversial right to development and, through a careful consideration of its current significance and application, reflects the importance of the rationale of the right to development onto the critical challenge of poverty in the 21st century. Through doctrine and jurisprudence, this book charts recent changes in international law relevant to the ability of states to develop and to fulfill their human rights obligations, and the reality that they are constrained by the actions and structural arrangements of the powerful members of the international community.
This book explores developments in the system of international safeguards meant to correspond to the deprivation of economic, social, and cultural rights today. By analyzing the approach, contribution, and current limitations of the international law of human rights to the manifestations of world poverty, the reader is challenged to rethink human rights and, in particular, the framing of responsibilities that are essential to their protection.

Recenzje

In Global Responsibility and Human Rights Salomon has given the international human rights community substantial food for thought. She takes on the whole world in one book, and challenges the traditional 'wisdom' as to how human rights obligations work. She also provides impressively researched and documented arguments for a shift in attention to enable the world community to combat world poverty through the application of the right to development and other aspects of current international law. The book is essential to academics, NGOs and policy makers alike. It should be the initiator of much debate and further deliberation on principles and practice in international human rights promotion

O autorze

Margot E. Salomon, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a member of the Centres Advisory Board, serves as Advisor to the United Nations High-Level Task Force on the Right to Development and has held a Visiting Lectureship at the UN University in Tokyo. Dr Salomon and has been a consultant to government on human rights and foreign policy and regularly trains diplomatic staff on human rights. She received her PhD from the LSE.