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Non-State Actors and Human Rights

Non-State Actors and Human Rights

Alston, Philip

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Series: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, Book 3

General LawSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0199272824
ISBN13: 9780199272822
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Sep 29 2005
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.72 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
Can transnational corporations ignore human rights as long as governments don't hold them accountable? If the UN is put in charge of a territory, is it bound by human rights law? Under traditional approaches to human rights, non-state actors cannot be parties to the relevant treaties and so they are only bound to the extent that obligations accepted by States can be applied to them by governments. This situation threatens to make a mockery of much of the international system of accountability for human rights violations. The contributors to this volume examine the different approaches that might be taken in order to ensure some degree of accountability. Making space in the legal regime to take account of the role of non-State actors is one of the biggest and most critical challenges facing international law today.

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