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2. Resisting the Waves of Ocean Grabbing: Challenges, Priorities and Strategies in the Small-Scale Fishers' Governance Struggle Against the Ocean Economy in South Africa.
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le Fleur, Yvette, Nangle, Maia, and Mannarino, Carmen
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BLUE economy , *OCEAN waves , *SMALL-scale fisheries , *OCEAN zoning , *FISHING villages - Abstract
The developments taking place under the framework of the Ocean Economy represent the latest wave of ocean grabbing in South Africa, with dire implications for small-scale fishing communities. This article provides an overview of the governance systems in the ocean space in South Africa. It examines the challenges confronting small-scale fishers under Ocean Economy policies and presents strategies implemented by these communities to counteract the displacement caused by the actions of the state and other actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Blue Economy, a New Threat for the Rights of Coastal Communities.
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Medina, Claudia Pineda
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BLUE economy , *HUMAN Development Index , *OCEAN mining , *TERRITORIAL waters , *ENVIRONMENTAL degradation , *CIVIL rights - Abstract
Honduras is a Central American country with significant natural richness but threatened by climate change and environmental degradation. It has one of the lowest human development indicators of Latin America, making it difficult to provide an adequate socio-economic environment to realize fundamental human rights. In a context of institutional weakening and with a legal framework that, in many cases, facilitates the widening of society's inequities, Honduras is confronted with new challenges, also in conjunction of recent announcements of financial opportunities towards the Blue Economy. This initiative is featuring the prospective development of mining in the seabed, and doubtful strategies of coastal ecosystems' use for energy production, among other proposals with economic purposes rather than environmental ones. This article aims to contribute to the reflection on the pertinence of the Blue Economy, and if it could effectively contribute to the satisfaction and promotion of human rights, particularly the right to food and the right to a healthy environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. IMF's Surcharges as a Threat to the Right to Development.
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Bohoslavsky, Juan Pablo, Cantamutto, Francisco, and Clérico, Laura
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DEBT relief , *MIDDLE-income countries , *SURCHARGES , *BANKRUPTCY , *DEBTOR & creditor ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
This article focuses on the implications of the IMF's surcharges policies, jointly with its de facto preferred creditor status, on the right to sustainable development of sovereign borrowers. The article argues that, while surcharges are not effective in limiting access to IMF credit, they inequitably distribute the IMF's operating costs, are disproportionate, pro-cyclical, very costly for developing countries, and non-transparent. Furthermore, if surcharges are theoretically a way to protect the IMF from potential risks of default, the article questions the IMF's de facto preferred creditor status, as it precisely denies the possibility of granting debt relief in case of insolvency, ultimately affecting the right to development of —mainly— middle-income borrowing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. Global Food Governance.
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McKeon, Nora
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COVID-19 pandemic , *COVID-19 , *HISTORY of food , *ECONOMIC impact of disease , *WORLD history - Abstract
This article helps lay a basis for the kind of deep analysis of the stakes of global food governance that is required today, under the impact of the COVID 19 crisis and with the threat of corporate capture of decision-making spaces. The article reviews the history of global food governance, identifies the critical questions that need to be asked, and suggests some directions that may contribute to strengthening the agency of rights-holders, weakening that of corporations, and democratizing multilateral governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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6. Re-imagining the UN Committee on World Food Security.
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Guttal, Shalmali
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FOOD security , *SOCIAL responsibility of business , *CORPORATE governance , *HUMAN rights , *FOOD sovereignty - Abstract
This article argues that the United Nations Committee on World Food Security can and must serve as a space for catalyzing and strengthening public interest-oriented food systems governance grounded in the human rights framework. This would necessarily entail confronting the fragmentation of governance and erasure of accountability promoted by corporate designed multi-stakeholderism, and democratizing multilateralism through genuine participation of rights holders, public scrutiny and participatory science. Pivotal to this endeavor is arresting the growing corporate influence in governance mechanisms and reorienting them towards reinvigorating relationships among people, communities and governments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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7. Towards Building Comprehensive Legal Frameworks for Corporate Accountability in Food Governance.
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Dorado, Daniel, Monsalve, Sofía, Naik, Ashka, and Suárez, Ana María
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SOCIAL responsibility of business , *NON-state actors (International relations) , *RIGHT to food , *HUMAN rights , *DUE diligence , *BUSINESS negotiation - Abstract
Given the failures of the UN Food Systems Summit and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to tackle the problems related to the corporate capture of food governance, this article calls for developing comprehensive legal frameworks for corporate accountability in food governance. In doing so, the authors identify key regulatory elements that need to be taken into account in food governance discussions. Their recommendations are borrowed from the guidance developed in the context of the negotiations for an International Legally Binding Instrument on TNCs and other Businesses with Respect to Human Rights, as well as in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the WHO Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors, and the WHO Financial Regulations and Financial Rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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8. A Trade Agenda for the Right to Food.
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Fakhri, Michael
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RIGHT to food , *COMMERCIAL policy , *TRADE negotiation , *INTERNATIONAL trade , *TREATIES - Abstract
Whoever benefits from a trade regime in effect gains power over significant aspects of different food systems. And yet the WTO still does not provide a coherent food policy and the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit made very little space for trade policy. The degree of international trade policy discord and supply chain fragility strongly suggests that there must be new international trade negotiations around fundamental questions of principle. Seeing little benefit in reforming the WTO, this article explains how the trade agenda for the right to food could focus on territorial markets and negotiating new types of treaties, International Food Agreements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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9. Bretton Woods' Pandemic Policies: A Gender Equality Analysis—Perspectives from Latin America.
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Bohoslavsky, Juan Pablo and Rulli, Mariana
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AUSTERITY , *GENDER inequality , *COVID-19 pandemic , *INTERNATIONAL financial institutions , *ECONOMIC impact of disease , *ECONOMISTS , *PANDEMICS - Abstract
Using a human rights and feminist economist perspective, this article analyzes the emergency financial policies deployed by international financial institutions (IFIs)—in particular the IMF and the World Bank—to help countries in Latin America cope with the COVID-19 crisis. Looking at the macroeconomic and fiscal assumptions behind IMF loans to countries, it identifies clear signals that fiscal discipline and pro-market options will continue to be priorities as soon as the emergency has been overcome. The study explains how recent adjustment and austerity policies adopted by a number of countries have disproportionately affected women's human rights, reinforcing the invisibilization of gender inequalities in domestic and care work and in turn, making women even more vulnerable to the impact of the pandemic and resulting economic recession. It concludes that in order to properly consider the conditions of IFI loans, countries must evaluate the probable impact of these financial contracts on people's human rights, and in particular on gender equality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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10. Challenging Corporate Power: Human Rights Globalization from Above and Below.
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Smith, Jackie
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CORPORATE power , *HUMAN rights , *GLOBALIZATION , *STATE power , *BUILDING foundations - Abstract
To address the most pressing issues of our day, the United Nations must be redesigned to transform global social relations in ways that reduce corporate power and empower civil society and local authorities as global actors. People's movements have made deliberate efforts to advance what I have called human rights globalization, building foundations for an alternative global order from the ground up. These emerging transformative projects can end corporate impunity and foster global norms and identities that contest corporate governance and the monopoly authority of states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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11. Re-grounding Human Rights as Cornerstone of Emancipatory Democratic Governance.
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Monsalve Suárez, Sofía
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HUMAN rights , *COLONIES , *INTERNATIONAL law , *ECONOMIC models , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL rights - Abstract
Envisioning democratic and internationalist ways of exercising peoples' sovereignty beyond local and national borders requires the enrichment of human rights thinking with non-European cosmovisions, normative and legal thinking. Integrating human rights, environmental and climate law and the rights of nature plays a key role in building institutions and policies that can genuinely address the root causes of ecological destruction. Likewise, human rights should be at the forefront of the struggle to re-shape financial capitalism and its destructive economic model. They can guide transition processes towards more sustainable ways of production, distribution and consumption, but also towards the necessary protection of and support for care work. Finally, there is an urgent need for innovation in human rights institutions and practices. This goes from securing funding for independent work and combating corporate capture, addressing the colonial legacy still present in international law and human rights architecture, rebalancing the local, national, sub-regional, regional and international dimensions of human rights work, and finding ways to address the dilemmas of a state-centric human rights accountability and governance which do not fall into the traps of multi-stakeholderism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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12. Health as a Human Right: A Fake News in a Post-human World?
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Tognoni, Gianni and Macchia, Alejandro
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HUMAN rights , *FAKE news , *FOREIGN news , *COVID-19 , *CIVIL rights - Abstract
Based on a synthetic overview that embraces the evolution of the 'health' concept, and its related institutions, from the role of health as the main indicator of fundamental human rights—as envisaged in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—to its qualification as the systems of disease control dependent on criteria of economic sustainability, the paper focuses on the implications and the impact of such evolution in two model scenarios which are centred on the COVID-19 pandemia. The article analyses COVID-19 both in the characteristics of its global dynamics and in its concrete management, as performed in a model medium income country, Argentina. In a world which has progressively assigned market values and goods an absolute strategic and political priority over the health needs and the rights to health of individual and peoples, the recognition of health as human right is confined to aspirational recommendations and rather hollowed out declarations of good will. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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13. The Weaponization of Identity and Citizenship: The Case of Tanzania.
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Eyakuze, Aidan and Said, Khalifa
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CITIZENSHIP , *POLITICAL parties , *UNEMPLOYMENT , *STATELESSNESS , *REFUGEES - Abstract
The article explores the weaponization of identity and citizenship in Tanzania that is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It illustrates the types of discriminations that a citizen can face for not affiliating with the ruling political party, from unemployment to statelessness; even refugees escaping persecution can't find refuge and are expelled in such a climate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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14. Deconstructing Transgender Identities in Pakistan, India, and Iran in Colonial and Post-colonial Context.
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Gichki, Mahso
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TRANSGENDER identity , *TRANSGENDER rights , *TRANSGENDER communities , *GLOBAL North-South divide , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
This article examines rights-based mobilization amongst the transgender community in Pakistan, India, and Iran. It tackles the dominant discourse of Human Rights, which has always found its geographic epistemic in the Global North. Thus, it argues that understanding the rights of transgender people in a non-Western world requires tracing the etymological history of such rights language, which is embedded within a greater vernacular knowledge of rights influenced by its colonial past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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15. Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration (BECCS): The Distracting Injustice of an Infeasible and Unlikely Technofix.
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Smolker, Rachel
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BIOMASS energy , *CARBON sequestration , *GLOBAL warming , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *HUMAN rights , *SOCIAL injustice - Abstract
In their constant attempt to avoid responsibility, polluters promote technological innovation as the 'true' solution to global warming. This article, through the case of BECCS, illustrates all that is faulty with such reasoning, and how indulging such diversion from addressing the environmental crisis with science-backed solutions violates human rights and the SDGs, and evidently, deepens the crisis and postpones the responsibility of making inconvenient changes to future generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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16. Evolution on Food and Nutrition Governance and the Emergence of Multistakeholderism.
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Valente, Flavio Luiz Schieck
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NUTRITION , *NUTRITION policy , *BIOLOGICAL evolution , *PRIVATE sector , *FOOD - Abstract
This article provides an historic snapshot of the evolution of global food and nutrition governance, with special attention to the global trends towards the increased participation of the private sector and the emergence of 'multi-stakeholderism'. It explores the role different actors had in reducing the broad spectrum of food and nutrition policies into a package of nutrition interventions, mostly involving product-based strategies, and challenges such approaches from a holistic and human rights-based perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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17. Human Rights: Advancing the Frontier of Emancipation.
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Sikkink, Kathryn
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HUMAN rights , *HUMAN rights movements , *LIBERTY , *GEOGRAPHIC boundaries , *SUPRANATIONALISM - Abstract
Amidst bleak prognostications about the future, the human rights movement offers a beacon of hope for securing a livable world. The movement's universality, supranationalism, and expanding emancipatory potential serve as inspiration and guide for the larger project of global transformation. The sweeping vision embodied in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has experienced constant renewal and steadfast legitimacy in the tumultuous postwar world. It has been a foundation for the pursuit of supranational governance and an antidote to the notion that the ends justify the means. The human rights movement, despite its imperfections, has a key role to play in the transformational change in human values crucial to building a just, flourishing future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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18. Re-imagining the UN Committee on World Food Security
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Shalmali Guttal
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Thematic Section ,Food security ,Scrutiny ,Human rights ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Corporate governance ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Food sovereignty ,Development ,Public administration ,Biology ,Multilateralism ,Food systems ,Multi-stakeholderism ,Corporations ,Accountability ,Food governance ,media_common - Abstract
This article argues that the United Nations Committee on World Food Security can and must serve as a space for catalyzing and strengthening public interest-oriented food systems governance grounded in the human rights framework. This would necessarily entail confronting the fragmentation of governance and erasure of accountability promoted by corporate designed multi-stakeholderism, and democratizing multilateralism through genuine participation of rights holders, public scrutiny and participatory science. Pivotal to this endeavor is arresting the growing corporate influence in governance mechanisms and reorienting them towards reinvigorating relationships among people, communities and governments.
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- 2021
19. A Trade Agenda for the Right to Food
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Michael Fakhri
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Commercial policy ,Governance ,geography ,Thematic Section ,Summit ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Human rights ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Supply chain ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Territorial markets ,International trade ,Development ,Biology ,language.human_language ,Food systems summit ,Development studies ,Right to food ,Food policy ,language ,Food systems ,business ,media_common - Abstract
Whoever benefits from a trade regime in effect gains power over significant aspects of different food systems. And yet the WTO still does not provide a coherent food policy and the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit made very little space for trade policy. The degree of international trade policy discord and supply chain fragility strongly suggests that there must be new international trade negotiations around fundamental questions of principle. Seeing little benefit in reforming the WTO, this article explains how the trade agenda for the right to food could focus on territorial markets and negotiating new types of treaties, International Food Agreements.
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- 2021
20. The Breathing Catastrophe: COVID-19 and Global Health Governance
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Nicoletta Dentico
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medicine.medical_specialty ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Global health ,Development ,Biology ,World Health Organization (WHO) ,Upfront ,Alma Ata Declaration ,Dignity ,Globalization ,ACT-accelerator ,Right to health ,medicine ,media_common ,Alma Ata declaration ,Pandemic ,Human rights ,business.industry ,Public health ,Public sector ,Health security ,Political economy ,Multi-stakeholderism ,Vaccine inequity ,business - Abstract
In the second year of the pandemic, the malaise of global health governance has come to the fore at the intersection of the trajectories of global crises that have converged in 2020: the soaring inequalities, the climate disaster and the effects of a globalization that takes our breath away. COVID-19 puts into question most of the global health assumptions and reaffirms the political intuitions of the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration on primary health care, which positioned health at the centre of a public sector-led project for economic transformation and human dignity, based on human rights. The new coronavirus imposes a new sense of purpose to health policymaking, which is not yet captured in the current failed global response to the pandemic. This is also an opportunity for the international community that believes in public health and the role of public institutions, to re-imagine itself and project new creative ways to engage beyond classical models, so as to reconquer some ground for a healthier future.
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- 2021
21. Challenging Corporate Power: Human Rights Globalization from Above and Below
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Jackie Smith
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0303 health sciences ,Civil society ,Thematic Section ,Global democracy ,Globalization from below ,Human rights ,Corporate governance ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Development ,Biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Globalization ,0302 clinical medicine ,Development studies ,Social movements ,Localization ,Political economy ,Impunity ,Monopoly ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Polycentric global governance ,030304 developmental biology ,media_common ,Social movement - Abstract
To address the most pressing issues of our day, the United Nations must be redesigned to transform global social relations in ways that reduce corporate power and empower civil society and local authorities as global actors. People’s movements have made deliberate efforts to advance what I have called human rights globalization, building foundations for an alternative global order from the ground up. These emerging transformative projects can end corporate impunity and foster global norms and identities that contest corporate governance and the monopoly authority of states.
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- 2021
22. Religious Fundamentalisms: The Observatory on the Universality of Rights Initiative.
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Shameem, Naureen
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HUMAN rights , *SOCIAL justice , *RELIGIOUS fundamentalism - Abstract
Anti-rights actors around the world now increasingly threaten our international and regional human rights systems, working to erode and undermine rights related to gender and sexuality through misleading references to religion, culture, tradition and state sovereignty. The Observatory on the Universality of Rights represents one major effort across feminist and other social justice movements to build and share knowledge, and collaboratively advocate to reclaim and reaffirm human rights in the wake of rising coordination and engagement from ultra-conservatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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23. Self-Care: An Act of Political Warfare or a Neoliberal Trap?
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Michaeli, Inna
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FEMINISTS , *HUMAN rights , *NEOLIBERALISM - Abstract
There is a momentum for self-care and well-being in feminist movements. Beyond neoliberal trends, we can find deeply politicized and inter-generational practices of care, and feminist ways of conceiving self-care and collective care, building sustainable and transformative organizations and movements, and comprehending what being well means in situations of injustice. In different corners on the world, feminists are developing provocative and creative models of care for survivors of violence, human rights defenders, activists, and organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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24. Funding Trends Affecting Women's Rights and Gender Equality Organizing.
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Walji, Fareen
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WOMEN'S rights , *GENDER inequality - Abstract
In a rapidly changing global operating environment, women's rights organizations and social justice allies are finding it increasingly important to identify and investigate global trends affecting funding for women's rights and gender equality. Five key trends identified and discussed in this article include that (1) the space for active citizen and civil society engagement continues to shrink, (2) the private (and in particular corporate) sector presence in women's rights work is both growing and evolving, (3) the growing global crises of climate change, increases in refugees and migration patterns are being used by governments to redirect ODA, (4) forms of organizing, collaborating and raising resources are shifting away from traditional models and finally (5) shifting political and economic climates particularly in the BRICS and elsewhere leads to both new challenges and opportunities for resourcing women's rights and gender equality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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25. Window on the World.
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SOCIAL movements , *CLIMATE change , *SOCIAL justice , *HUMAN rights , *NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations - Published
- 2016
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26. Genetic Justice: Identity and Equality in the Biotech Age
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Katie Hasson and Marcy Darnovsky
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0303 health sciences ,Human rights ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Environmental ethics ,Development ,Biology ,Development policy ,03 medical and health sciences ,Human reproduction ,0302 clinical medicine ,Development studies ,International policy ,Eugenics ,medicine ,Merge (version control) ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,030304 developmental biology ,media_common ,Genetic testing - Abstract
As genetic technologies merge with forensics, medicine, and human reproduction, renewed eugenic temptations are arising. The prospect of heritable genetic modification has been debated for decades; the prevailing position in international policy and human rights documents has been that, due to its numerous safety and social risks, it should be legally off limits. The question is now at a tipping point. With decisive action, we can avoid this threat to the future of equality.
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- 2020
27. Contested Conservation: Implications for Rights, Democratization, and Citizenship in Southern Africa
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Maxi Louis, Elizabeth Rihoy, and Masego Madzwamuse
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0303 health sciences ,Human rights ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Development ,Biology ,Natural resource ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Development studies ,Political economy ,Democratization ,Ideology ,Citizenship ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,030304 developmental biology ,Militarization ,media_common ,Wildlife conservation - Abstract
Two competing ideological approaches have emerged in African wildlife conservation: an exclusionary approach that is aligned with the, mostly Western, animal protection movement; and the inclusive human rights-based approach of many African governments, which reflects the opinions and rights of their citizens. The emergence of social media as a campaign tool used by animal protection organizations reduces the ability of rural African citizens to engage with policy processes affecting their rights and strengthens the ability of misinformed western citizens to assume this role.
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- 2020
28. Regulating Corporate Responsibility and Finance for Development.
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Lopez, Carlos
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HUMAN rights , *SOCIAL responsibility of business - Abstract
The article explores how a new legally binding instrument on human rights can play a role in making business corporations, and the private sector in general, fit to contribute to the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations. The current overreliance on private sector investment as key instrument for development without adequate safeguards and accountability mechanisms is misplaced and generates distrust . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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29. A Feminist Perspective on the Follow-Up Process for Financing for Development.
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Durano, Marina and Bidegain Ponte, Nicole
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FEMINISTS , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
The FfD follow-up needs to be the space where UN member states seek to transform the relationship among financial, productive, and socially reproductive spheres of activities into one that fulfills human rights, generates capabilities and reduces global inequality. Enhancing the integration of the various parts of the UN system dealing with human rights and with other key development issues is pivotal to the reform of the international financial architecture. More importantly, women's empowerment and the meaningful participation of feminists and women's organizations contribute to the strengthening of the accountability of the multilateral system to humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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30. Investment Protection Agreements, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: An Uneasy Mix.
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Os, Roos and Knottnerus, Roeline
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SUSTAINABLE development , *INVESTMENT policy , *SOCIAL responsibility of business - Abstract
A sustainable trade and investment policy should enhance corporate social responsibility and accountability. The current architecture of trade and investment agreements requires fundamental recalibrating to include binding and enforceable investor obligations, while the grounds for bringing investment claims against states should be curtailed. The policy space of states to regulate in the wider public interest must take firm precedence over investor rights and privileges, and at the international level, effective avenues should be established that provide access to justice for victims of investor crimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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31. Social Protection, Human Rights, and Please.
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Higgitt, Ryan
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HUMAN rights , *NEOLIBERALISM - Abstract
Increasing attention is now being given to linking social protection with human rights. This article accounts for the change in strategy in terms of the failure of a development agenda heretofore dominated not just by neoliberalism but, more generally, the rationality of economics as science. A case is made that the World Bank is resisting human rights because it doesn't want to give up the prevailing, scientized definition of 'human' enabling World Bank hegemony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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32. Evolution on Food and Nutrition Governance and the Emergence of Multistakeholderism
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Flavio Luiz Schieck Valente
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0301 basic medicine ,Nutrition Interventions ,Human rights ,Corporate governance ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Development ,Biology ,Private sector ,Development policy ,03 medical and health sciences ,Broad spectrum ,030104 developmental biology ,Development studies ,Development economics ,media_common - Abstract
This article provides an historic snapshot of the evolution of global food and nutrition governance, with special attention to the global trends towards the increased participation of the private sector and the emergence of ‘multi-stakeholderism’. It explores the role different actors had in reducing the broad spectrum of food and nutrition policies into a package of nutrition interventions, mostly involving product-based strategies, and challenges such approaches from a holistic and human rights-based perspective.
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- 2018
33. Human Rights: Advancing the Frontier of Emancipation
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Kathryn Sikkink
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Emancipation ,Human rights ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Universality (philosophy) ,Environmental ethics ,Development ,Biology ,Human rights movement ,Sovereignty ,Development studies ,Legitimacy ,Universalism ,media_common - Abstract
Amidst bleak prognostications about the future, the human rights movement offers a beacon of hope for securing a livable world. The movement’s universality, supranationalism, and expanding emancipatory potential serve as inspiration and guide for the larger project of global transformation. The sweeping vision embodied in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has experienced constant renewal and steadfast legitimacy in the tumultuous postwar world. It has been a foundation for the pursuit of supranational governance and an antidote to the notion that the ends justify the means. The human rights movement, despite its imperfections, has a key role to play in the transformational change in human values crucial to building a just, flourishing future.
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- 2018
34. Rural Modernity: An oxymoron or a new vision?: Interview with Andrea Ferrante.
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Zarro, Angela
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SUSTAINABLE agriculture , *ECOLOGY of indigenous peoples - Abstract
In this interview, Andrea Ferrante explains what a sustainable agricultural transformation shall mean and imply from the point of view of small farmers, local producers, rural communities and indigenous people, as presented also in the Declaration of Nyéléni 2015. Ferrante argues that such transformation is already happening through people's experience and practices at local level worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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35. Unfair Trade? Preferential Trade Agreements, Human Rights and Inequalities.
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Khan, Tessa
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RESTRAINT of trade , *UNFAIR competition , *COMMERCIAL treaties , *EQUALITY policy , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
This article examines the implications for social inclusion, equality and the fulfillment of human rights of the recent proliferation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). It considers the impact that PTAs have had on small and medium-sized enterprises, smallholder farmers and women. It also considers the limits on domestic policy space mandated by PTAs, and the implications this has for the ability of governments' to regulate in the public interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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36. Nutrition, Pathologies of Power and the Need for Health Democracy.
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Dentico, Nicoletta
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RIGHT to health , *RIGHT to food , *ECONOMIC elites , *NUTRITION , *INTERNATIONAL law , *HUMAN rights , *DEMOCRACY - Abstract
The Alma-Ata strategy on primary health care offers a holistic approach to ensuring the right to health and the right to food. However, the trends are going in the opposite direction. Human rights are being undermined by global rules fashioned after the interests of the corporate elite. A new movement for judiciablity of the right to food and the right to health is needed to reverse this trend, as well as international law to rein in the powers of the corporate elite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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37. Towards the Full Realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition*.
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Valente, Flavio Luiz Schieck
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RIGHT to food , *NUTRITION , *WOMEN'S rights , *CIVIL society , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
This article describes the conceptual evolution of the right to food into its current denomination as human right to adequate food and nutrition in the broader context of the indivisibility of human rights, women's rights and food sovereignty. It also explores the challenges and opportunities provided by the Second International Conference on Nutrition and describes the political foundations of civil society's engagement in the preparation and planned follow-up of the conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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38. Social Movements Statement on Nutrition.
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NUTRITION , *NEOLIBERALISM , *FOOD supply , *TRANSGENIC organisms , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
The article focuses on the state of human nutrition since the 2nd International Conference on Nutrition. Topics discussed include the role of the neoliberal economic model in causing the split of nutrition from food systems, health and agriculture, the hazards of monocropping and genetically modified organisms on the environment and health, and the need for a human-rights based approach in promoting the right to nutrition.
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- 2014
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39. Towards the Full Realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition*.
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Valente, Flavio Luiz Schieck
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RIGHT to food ,NUTRITION ,WOMEN'S rights ,CIVIL society ,HUMAN rights - Abstract
This article describes the conceptual evolution of the right to food into its current denomination as human right to adequate food and nutrition in the broader context of the indivisibility of human rights, women's rights and food sovereignty. It also explores the challenges and opportunities provided by the Second International Conference on Nutrition and describes the political foundations of civil society's engagement in the preparation and planned follow-up of the conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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40. Building 'Shared Societies' in Pacific Island States: Prospects and challenges*.
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Slatter, Claire
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HUMAN rights , *POLITICAL participation , *EQUALITY , *SOCIAL development - Abstract
This article examines some of the challenges to building Shared Societies in Pacific Island states in relation to the four essential features: meaningful democratic participation; respect for diversity and the dignity of the individual; equality of opportunity, including access to resources; and protection from discrimination. It discusses the particular challenges of managing ethnic diversity and reducing economic disparities. Building Shared Societies in Pacific Island states is a desirable but long-term project that will involve many changes to be made, inter alia, in law and policy, the educational curriculum, political leadership and citizen understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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41. Building 'Shared Societies' in Pacific Island States: Prospects and challenges*.
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Slatter, Claire
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HUMAN rights ,POLITICAL participation ,EQUALITY ,SOCIAL development - Abstract
This article examines some of the challenges to building Shared Societies in Pacific Island states in relation to the four essential features: meaningful democratic participation; respect for diversity and the dignity of the individual; equality of opportunity, including access to resources; and protection from discrimination. It discusses the particular challenges of managing ethnic diversity and reducing economic disparities. Building Shared Societies in Pacific Island states is a desirable but long-term project that will involve many changes to be made, inter alia, in law and policy, the educational curriculum, political leadership and citizen understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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42. Body Politics in the COVID-19 Era from a Feminist Lens
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Emilia Reyes
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Public policy ,Biology ,Development ,Body politics ,03 medical and health sciences ,Politics ,0302 clinical medicine ,Feminist movement ,Feminist macro-economy ,Impossibility ,030304 developmental biology ,media_common ,Social movement ,0303 health sciences ,Unpaid domestic and care work ,Human rights ,Dialogue Section ,Solidarity ,Development studies ,Political economy ,Social disasters ,Feminist activism ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Global economic solutions - Abstract
The premises of the feminist economist tradition from the Global South center their analysis in the wellbeing of people and the planet, under the human rights framework, gender equality and environmental integrity, as cross-cutting principles. The pandemic brought to the surface what the feminist movement has been saying all along, namely that the wellbeing of persons, and the planet they live in, depends on a complex web of elements beyond a limited notion of bodily health. The current capitalistic system has always kindled a tension between life and profits, a game that has undermined human rights of all persons by prioritizing the circulation of merchandises, goods and capitals. That struggle is more acutely felt now with the confinement measures imposed all around the world, and the ensuing impossibility for millions of people in precarious circumstances of respecting the lockdown measures. Women are even more carrying the burden of subsidizing entire economies. The feminist movement is now looking at solutions of solidarity at the crossroad between and within social movements, public policy, local and community resistance, while refusing to go back to a world where women may have to subsidize even more entire economies under recession.
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- 2020
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43. Governance in Africa: Challenges for the next 50 years*.
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Anyang' Nyong'o, Peter
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DEMOCRACY , *POLITICAL doctrines , *HUMAN rights , *NEOLIBERALISM , *PAN-Africanism , *SOCIAL sciences ,AFRICAN politics & government - Abstract
This essay traces the evolving visions of African governance, from the dawn of independence to present times, and maps out the interlocking arenas where struggles for democracy, human rights, and development are taking place. These range from global struggles over neo-liberalism, to continent-wide engagement over Pan-Africanism and good governance, to national movements to protect electoral democracy and rule of law, to sub-national activism around local democracy, subsidiarity, and people's rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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44. Governance in Africa: Challenges for the next 50 years*.
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Anyang' Nyong'o, Peter
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AFRICAN politics & government ,DEMOCRACY ,POLITICAL doctrines ,HUMAN rights ,NEOLIBERALISM ,PAN-Africanism ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
This essay traces the evolving visions of African governance, from the dawn of independence to present times, and maps out the interlocking arenas where struggles for democracy, human rights, and development are taking place. These range from global struggles over neo-liberalism, to continent-wide engagement over Pan-Africanism and good governance, to national movements to protect electoral democracy and rule of law, to sub-national activism around local democracy, subsidiarity, and people's rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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45. Key Framing Questions to Guide the UN Post-2015 High-Level Panel's Work and Consultations.
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Schuftan, Claudio
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HUMAN rights , *CIVIL society , *EQUALITY , *SOCIAL marginality , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation - Abstract
Activist and health expert Claudio Schuftan uses a rights-based framework to respond to the questionnaire circulated by the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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46. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed goals and indicators*.
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Bello, Walden
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HUMAN security , *PEACE , *INTERNATIONAL security , *HUMAN rights , *CLIMATOLOGY , *FOOD security , *COMMODIFICATION , *INDUSTRIALIZATION - Abstract
The article argues that simply adding new goals (such as peace, security, and human rights) to the post-2015 agenda is not enough; there needs to be a focus on the structural and policy factors that perpetuate poverty, in particular to ensure that the future development agenda is not hijacked by a resurrected Washington Consensus. It goes on to propose a 7-point agenda: climate stabilization, financial re-regulation and debt cancellation, inequality reduction, food security, de-commodification, comprehensive social protection, and industrialization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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47. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed goals and indicators*.
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Bello, Walden
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HUMAN security ,PEACE ,INTERNATIONAL security ,HUMAN rights ,CLIMATOLOGY ,FOOD security ,COMMODIFICATION ,INDUSTRIALIZATION - Abstract
The article argues that simply adding new goals (such as peace, security, and human rights) to the post-2015 agenda is not enough; there needs to be a focus on the structural and policy factors that perpetuate poverty, in particular to ensure that the future development agenda is not hijacked by a resurrected Washington Consensus. It goes on to propose a 7-point agenda: climate stabilization, financial re-regulation and debt cancellation, inequality reduction, food security, de-commodification, comprehensive social protection, and industrialization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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48. Diverse Development Models and Strategies Revisited.
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Raaber, Natalie and Scampini, Alejandra
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ECONOMIC development , *FEMINISM , *SUSTAINABILITY , *SUSTAINABLE development , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
Natalie Raaber and Alejandra Scampini explore the different forms of resistance to neoliberal or capitalist globalization and ways in which people, movements and communities are building sustainable societies. Their article is based on discussions at the In-Depth Session entitled 'Re-envisioning development, exploring alternative constructions across the globe' held at the 2012 AWID International Forum. The In-Depth Session was, itself, part of AWID's program of research on the gendered impacts of the 2008 financial/ economic crisis and alternative feminist responses to the crisis, including the envisioning of systemic alternatives. Raaber and Scampini aim to provide a snapshot of the range of views expressed at this session, highlighting, in particular, concrete examples of alternatives to (and within) the mainstream development model. In this way, the article aims to critically question the utility of the mainstream development model, underscoring, as feminists have repeatedly noted, its inability to fulfill the most basic rights of the world's people and the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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49. Culture versus Rights Dualism: A myth or a reality?
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Ertürk, Yakin
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WOMEN'S rights , *HUMAN rights , *NEOLIBERALISM , *FEMINISM , *DEMOCRACY , *GLOBALIZATION - Abstract
Women's human rights discourse and movements have become entangled within a culture-versus-rights dualism. Yakin Ertük argues that this is a false dualism, which serves both private patriarchy and public patriarchy of neo-liberal globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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50. Global Networks and Organizations.
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INDIGENOUS rights , *DEMOCRACY , *CIVIL society , *GENDER inequality , *REGIONALISM (International organization) , *HUMAN rights , *LANGUAGE & languages - Abstract
The article offers information on several global and Latin American-and-African-based regional civil society organizations and networks which work for indigenous rights democracy. It states that The Democracy Centre was founded in San Francisco, California in 1992. It says that the Latin American Information Agency (ALAI) is an organization committed to gender equality and human rights. It adds that Cultural Survival helps defend the culture, languages and lands of indigenous people.
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- 2011
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