Book Review: Reproductive freedom: in the context of international human rights and humanitarian law
| DOI | 10.1177/092405190001800220 |
| Date | 01 June 2000 |
| Published date | 01 June 2000 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
NQHR
2/2000
value
of
applying human rights standards to transnational corporations. The increasing
involvement
of
corporations in the public domain and the steady reduction
of
governmental involvement in commercial and social undertakings has created a desperate
need to rethink the nature and role
of
the private corporation and its regulation. This
volume attempts to define an effective framework for transnational corporate responsibility
through international human rights standards.
It
contains a balanced collection
of
analyses
from all interested sources in the corporate responsibility debate, and is the result
of
a
three-day conference during which government officials, corporate executives, NGOs, and
representatives
of
inter-governmental organisations, as well as academic researchers, came
together to discuss the emerging issues. The essays have been arranged under six broad
themes: policy issues, regulation, issues
of
application, matters
of
doctrine, globalisation
and case studies.
The power
of
human rights: international norms and domestic change /ed. by Thomas
Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1999. - xii, 318 p. - (Cambridge studies in international
relations;
no. 66)
ISBN: 0 521 65882 9
On the 50th anniversary
of
the Universal Declaration
of
Human Rights, this book
evaluates the impact
of
these norms on the behavior
of
national governments in many
regions
of
the world. Have the principles articulated in the Declaration had any effect on
the behavior
of
States towards their citizens? What are the conditions under which
international human rights norms are internalised in domestic practices? And what can we
learn from this case about why, how, and under what conditions international norms in
general influence the actions
of
States? This book draws on the work
of
social
constructivists to examine these important issues. The contributors examine eleven
countries representing five different world regions - Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa,
Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe - drawing practical lessons for
activists and policy makers concerned with preserving and extending the human rights
gains made during the past fifty years.
Promoting human rights through bills
of
rights: comparative perspectives /ed. by Phillip
Alston. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. - xiii, 569 p.
ISBN: 0-19-825882-4
The 13 articles in this book provide a survey
of
the type
of
approaches that have been
adopted in different countries and examine the impact which the evolution of the
international human rights regime has had on the conception and functioning
of
bills of
rights. Through selected case studies consideration is given to question such as the open-
endedness
of
human rights norms, the extent to which bills
of
rights empower an
unaccountable judiciary, the implications for the separation
of
powers oflimitations upon
the 'powers
of
both the executive and legislative branches, the compatibility
of
at least
some types
of
bills with notations
of
the sovereignty
of
the people and the extent to which
aconservative legal framework will usually stymie expectations that rights will be used
to achieve a socially progressive agenda.
Reproductive freedom: in the context
of
international human rights and humanitarian law
/ Maja Kirilova Eriksson. - The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2000. - xiii, 573 p. -
(International studies in human rights ; no. 60)
ISBN: 90-411-1249-9
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