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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis

Narula, Smita - 2015

The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in … world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food production as small-scale independent food producers or … agricultural laborers. These facts and figures signal a definitive blow to efforts to reduce global hunger and lift the world …

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Pretending to be the good guy : how to increase ODA inflows while abusing human rights

Schmaljohann, Maya - 2013

I investigate the effect of ratification of different human rights treaties adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Official Development Assistance (ODA) by donors of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). On average the ratification of an additional human rights treaty...

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Ip Rights Under Investment Agreements : The Trips-Plus Implications for Enforcement and Protection of Public Interest

Biadgleng, Ermias Tekeste - 2014

World Trade Organization (WTO).IP rights validly acquired in accordance with the domestic law can constitute investment …

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A Guide for Developing Countries on How to Understand and Adapt to the Global Minimum Tax : Draft for Consultation

Christians, Allison; Lassourd, Thomas; Mataba, Kudzie; … - 2023

This Guide seeks to provide information helpful to countries making policy decisions with respect to the Pillar Two Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) minimum tax proposal. The GloBE initiative creates a pool of potential tax revenues on in-scope corporate multinationals’ incomes to be collected...

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Global Poverty and the Right to Development in International Law

Macklem, Patrick - 2017

This Article advances an account of the right to development as a legal instrument that holds the international legal order accountable for its role in the production and reproduction of global poverty. It first distinguishes moral conceptions of human rights, as instruments that protect...

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Technology and Human Rights : Friends or Foes? Highlighting Innovations Applying to Natural Resources and Medicine

Haugen, Hans Morten - 2014

: Essential for Reducing World Hunger and Promoting Cost-efficient Bioenergy? Chapter 8: Technology Transfer of Environmental …

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The Accountability of Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Violations : A Critical Analysis of Select Mechanisms and Their Potential to Protect Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Developing Countries

Kinyua, Paul Kenneth - 2010

The primary question that this research aims to answer is: how effective are the emergent norms and mechanisms to hold MNCs accountable for human rights violations, especially with regard to accountability for violations of economic, social and cultural rights in developing countries? The...

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Human Rights Criticism of the World Bank's Private Sector Development and Privatization Projects

Kinley, David; Davis, Tom - 2015

The World Bank is no stranger to criticism of its projects, especially in respect of its privatization and private … commissioned by the World Bank. The brief was to provide an account of the major criticisms directed at the World Bank's private …

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International Economic Law and the Right to Food

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2015

This chapter examines the historic and current policies and practices that have contributed to food insecurity in the global South. It analyzes the impact of international economic law on the patterns of trade and production that perpetuate food insecurity, and recommends concrete measures that...

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The Millennium Development Goals : Milestones or Millstones? Human Rights Priorities for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Darrow, Mac - 2015

In September 2010, world ... …

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