What Global Human Rights Obligations Do We Have (original) (raw)

Transnational Human Rights Obligations

Human Rights Quarterly, 2002

Ph.D. in Law from University of Oslo. Her work in recent years has focused on human rights obligations, in particularly non-state actors. She is the author of the book The Human Rights Obligations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. She is currently working on a book project on states' human rights obligations in foreign affairs.

The Nature of International Human Rights Obligations (2009)

Edited version in: Daniel Moeckli, Sandesh Sivakumaran, Sangeeta Shah, and David Harris (eds.), International Human Rights Law, Oxford University Press (2010)., 2009

This draft textbook chapter aims to highlight what is specific about human rights obligations as international law obligations. It builds on the notion of the "special character" of human rights treaties to identify the many ways in which international human rights involves different rules when it comes to becoming party and implementation.The chapter will eventually be developped into a more extensive study.

Global Justice and Human Rights: A Critical Survey (draft work in progress)

In this article I undertake a critical survey of contemporary rights-based theories of global justice by drawing out some of the common claims, challenges, features, and tensions. A familiar theme among these otherwise divergent perspectives is that global justice demands that every individual be well positioned to enjoy the prospects for a decent life. Explaining and realizing this demand is modelled upon universal respect for human rights. I develop a composite account aimed at identifying the salient features concerning their content, justification, and role. I am interested in the commonalities and mutually reinforcing aspects of the valuable members of the team of concepts central to rights-based accounts, specifically, needs, capabilities, and rights. This critical survey helps us gain a better understanding of the terrain and to highlight a rights-based capabilities perspective as central to the pursuit of global justice. This has the value of putting into clearer focus some of the battle lines and new directions in global justice and human rights.

The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in a Global Context

The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention

This paper is a study of the conceptual dimensions of human rights gleaned from the writings of scholars and jurists, judicial precedent, and domestic and international human rights instruments, particularly under the United Nations System. Human rights have become an international subject and have today attained the status of a jus cogens rule of international law. The need to determine and clarify the history and dynamics of this subject has given impetus and inspiration to this paper. Applying a theoretical and doctrinal methodology, the paper set out to appraise the different dimensions, and for that matter ramifications, to the concept of human rights and how they affect our everyday life. The paper found, among other things, that human rights law and its observance are much more entrenched at the international forum than in domestic jurisdictions. The paper concluded that human rights issues are no longer a matter of domestic affairs of any nation in the light of extant intern...

Global Protection of Human Rights: Aspirations, Challenges and Reflections

US-China Law Review, 2015

This paper appraised the impact of the International Bill of Rights on the promotion and protection of human rights across the globe. The paper examined the concept of international human rights, its global exchange and attempts to institutionalize its principles for the protection of individuals as a matter of universal validity in contemporary times. The author observed that in spite of arguments to the contrary, international human rights standards as set out in the International Bill of Rights have assumed the status of international customary law. The paper discloses that whatever the aspirations of the drafters however, violations of human rights stills persist in virtually all nations of the world some six decades after the adoption of the international documents for the universal protection of human rights were initiated on the floor of the United Nations.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION

Recognition of a wide range of human rights and fundamental freedom in a series of treaties, conventions and declarations is one of the most revolutionary developments in the history of homosapiens. It has aroused aspirations and expectations of people all around the world and created an awareness of human rights problems and the necessity of their effective implementation and enforcement. But these rights are not self-implementating and depend for their realization on the availability of adequate financial resources, courts and institutions and above all international cooperation and assistance. Article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights underlines this fact states: "Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in the Declaration can be achieved." KEYWORDS:- Globalisation, Justice and Equality, Cultural Rights, Nationalism, Conflicts. Introduction : The dramatic impact of globalization on the World