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Human Rights Protection in Global Politics: Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors

Human Rights Protection in Global Politics: Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors

Author: David Karp; Kurt Mills
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137463166
Published In: January 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Human Rights Protection in Global Politics analyzes the contemporary human rights responsibilities of state, non-state and international actors. It includes an interdisciplinary set of perspectives based in international relations, politics, law and philosophy.

The book seeks to understand - but also to critique and to move beyond - the contributions of, firstly, the 'respect-protect-fulfil' tripartite division of human rights responsibility, and secondly, the more recent 'Responsibility to Protect' policy framework. It rejects approaches that treat duties to respect, not to harm, or not to violate human rights as entirely constitutive of the responsibilities that global actors have.

The book's contributors engage in dialogue with each other, and sometimes even disagree. However, they are unified in their attempt to paint a more complex picture than is currently available about the nature of human rights protection and various global actors' responsibility for it.

PART I: RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

1. Introduction: Human Rights Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors

David Jason Karp and Kurt Mills

2. Humanitarianism and Responsibility in Discourse and Practice

Glenn Mitoma and Kerry Bystrom

PART II: STATES' RESPONSIBILITIES: BEYOND 'VIOLATIONS' OF HUMAN RIGHTS

3. Doctrinal Innovation and State Obligations: The Patterns of Doctrinal Development in the Jurisprudence of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Matyas Bodig

4. Indivisible Human Rights and the End(s) of the State

Daniel J. Whelan

5. Beyond Individual Accountability: The Meaning of State Responsibility

Mark Gibney

PART III: RESPONSIBILITIES OF NON-STATE ACTORS

6. Putting the Blame on Governments: Why Firms and Governments Have Failed to Advance the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Susan Ariel Aaronson and Ian Higham

7. The Concept of Human Rights Protection and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

David Jason Karp

8. Human Rights Ltd.: An Alternative Approach to Assessing the Impact of Transnational Corporations on Human Rights

Flor Gonzalez Correa