On the other hand, human rights abuses are still perpetrated in total disregard for these laws, as the HRC report shows. Foreign corporations, the law researcher at NYU said, are the ones with the financial power. In a system that is still working toward rule of law, and where rights are stil largely bound by who has political and financial power, foreign businesses can use that leverage to insist on real enforcement and rule of law in China. If China wants to attract foreign investment, it has to listen to them, he said. Howson has a more free-market attitude.
Property rights are such an important part of civil and political rights.
People need civil and political rights to protect their property rights. They re seeing you can t just have property rights without conferring on people a whole different set of rights that are very, very important. Comments about this story. The Earth Times All rights reserved.