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An international democracy movement
The majority of the world community recognizes democracy, with all its flaws and loopholes, as the best form of governance. Democracy and human rights are intertwined, and patriarchy cannot coexist with democracy.
World Health Assembly Adopts Resolution Tying Public Health To Trade Policy
The World Health Assembly on 27 May 2006 adopted a resolution that urges member states to improve coordination at the national level between international trade and public health, requesting the World Health Organization (WHO) to help its member states to do this. It also calls on countries to consider new laws and policies to address negative impacts on public health from trade policies, as well as potential opportunities.
Are Human Rights Any Business of Business? Corporate Behaviour from a Human Rights Perspective
In the last few decades, we have witnessed a shift in economic and political power from states to corporate institutions. One indicator of this trend is the sheer amount of capital that corporations generate: Microsoft makes more money than the 31 Least Developed Countries together. A study by Anderson/Cavanagh found that 51 corporations are “among the top 100 largest economies in the world, while only 49 are countries.”
The Made-Up Crisis:
Protests in the streets and chanting with posters on the steps of the statehouses of New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 2003 had one remarkable shared feature: their constituents. These protests came not from the vast unemployed masses demanding jobs, fair wages, or educational opportunities for the underemployed, underinsured, homeless or poor. Nor were these protests staged by pacifist citizens, crying out in opposition to some war in a place far away. These protests came from a most unexpected quarter: private sector physicians.
Towards an International Human Rights Framework for Corporate Accountability: The United Nations Human Rights Norms for Business
The process of globalization has resulted in the acquisition of immense power by MNCs, particularly in developing countries where they are able to shape policy and influence governments. In LDCs they often cause human rights abuses with impunity and exhibit a lack of transparency, behaving in ways that they would not be able to in their home countries in the global North. MNCs operate across national borders and individual governments cannot effectively regulate their activities. They sometimes avoid accountability by taking advantage of laws that allow them to transfer their business or operate under different corporations.
Economic Development as the Basis for Fulfilling Economic and Social Rights
The rights based approach to development is the conceptual framework of human development normatively based on human rights standards. The development concept based on human rights establishes the achievement of basic human rights and freedoms as a development objective. In this approach, human rights are the starting points and the basic aims in defining and designing development policy. Therefore, a complete development framework must reflect international guaranteed human rights and must cover all sectors such as education, health care, housing, access to judicial protection, personal security, and voting rights. Such an approach is not compatible with development policies, development plans, or programs that produce violations of human rights, allow “trade” in rights, or that set “development” as a “priority objective” over human rights
Globalisation and Economic and Social Rights of Women
The current model of economic globalisation deepens present inequalities on ethnic, gender, and economic bases within and among nations, aggravating the possibility of establishing sustainable and equal development for all. Multilateral institutions, including World Bank, IMF, and WTO, promote globalisation of the type dominated by trade liberalism and privatisation. Such a model of globalisation and economic growth stimulation has aggravated economic, social, and culture conditions in which the most affected groups live; and it has contributed to the growth of poverty and social exclusion.
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