Economic Globalisation and Human Rights
Subtitle: EIUC Studies on Human Rights and Democratization (Eiuc Studies on Human Rights and Democratisation)
Contributors: Wolfgang Benedek (Editor); Koen De Feyter (Editor); Fabrizio Marrella (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 22, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521878869
Subjects: International human rights law; International humanitarian law; Law / Human Rights; Constitutional; Law; Globalization; Human rights
Description: Economic globalisation is one of the guiding paradigms of the twenty-first century. The challenge it implies for human rights is fundamental, and key questions have up to now received no satisfying answers. How can human rights protect human dignity when economic globalisation has an adverse impact on local living conditions? How should human rights evolve in response to a global economy in which non-statal actors are decisive forces? Economic Globalisation and Human Rights sets out to assess these and other questions to ensure that, as economic globalization intensifies, human rights take up the central and crucial position that they deserve. Using a multidisciplinary methodology, leading scholars reflect on issues such as the need for global ethics, the localisation of human rights, the role of human rights in WTO law, and efforts to make international economic organisations more accountable and multinational corporations more socially responsible.