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Spinning Straw into Gold : Incorporating the Business and Human Rights Agenda into International Investment Agreements

Choudhury, Barnali - 2016

The adoption of the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights represents a watershed moment in the business and human rights movement. Nevertheless, despite its achievements, the work to align business and human rights issues remains.One approach to furthering the work in this area...

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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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Collisions of Societal Constitutions : Hierarchical Power Arrangements and Horizontal Effects in the Management of Human Rights Regimes

Backer, Larry Catá - 2015

Societal constitutionalism presents us with alternatives to state-centered constitutional theory. But this alternative does not so much displace as extend conventional constitutional theory as a set of static premises that structure the organization of legitimate governance units. Constitutional...

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The Right to Food : Holding Global Actors Accountable Under International Law

Narula, Smita - 2007

Economic globalization represents both an unmet opportunity and a significant challenge for the fulfillment of social and economic rights, including the right to food. While corporate sector accountability and the responsibility of international financial institutions (IFIs) to ensure social and...

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Human Rights in the Law of the World Trade Organization : The Case of the European Generalized System of Preferences

Noordhoek, Willemijn - 2013

The relationship between human rights law and international trade law has been a point of discussion for many years. An explicit reference to human rights is nowhere to be found in the WTO Agreement, but the ruling of the Appellate Body in the EC-Tariff Preferences case has made an important...

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International Financial Regulatory Standards and Human Rights : Connecting the Dots

Aizawa, Motoko - 2018

This paper's hypothesis is that the international standard setting bodies (SSBs) could improve the quality of their international standards by incorporating a human rights analysis. It focuses on five SSBs and seven of their international standards and its findings include the following: First,...

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International Trade and Human Rights : An Unfinished Debate

Ibrahim, Abadir - 2013

Since the nexus between the regimes of human rights and international trade has been established, most of the views expressed on this subject are at extreme variance. On one side you have scholars who argue that the nexus between international trade and human rights is a positive one, and on the...

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A Human Rights Based Approach to International Financial Regulatory Standards

Bradlow, Daniel - 2018

Globalization and information and communication technologies pushed national financial regulators to establish international standard setting bodies (SSBs) which promote non-binding international financial regulatory standards. However, finance inevitably has social and human rights impacts and...

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Global Trade-Enabling Law

Delimatsis, Panos - 2022

interests within the World Trade Organization (WTO) puts into question its ability to achieve its central objective of free …

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Shedding New Light on Multinational Corporations and Human Rights : Promises and Limits of 'Blockchainizing' the Global Supply Chain

Tsai, Chang-hsien; Lin, Ching-Fu - 2023

Over the last few decades, advances in transportation and production technology, in conjunction with economic globalization and the emergence of multinational corporations, have consolidated fragmented production processes into long and complex supply chains across jurisdictions. While there are...

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