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Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance
Drawing on gender, queer and postcolonial studies and representing different regional perspectives, this book critically examines the relationship among gender, sexuality, global governance, development and queer social movements in the global South.
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Cultural rights and justice : sustainable development, the arts and the body
\"This book provides an innovative contribution to the emerging field of culture and development through the lens of cultural rights, arguing in favour of a fruitful dialogue between human rights, development studies, critical cultural studies, and concerns about the protection and preservation of cultural diversity. It breaks with established approaches by introducing the themes of aesthetics, embodiment, narrative and peace studies into the field of culture and development, and in doing so, proposes both an expanded conception of cultural rights and a holistic vision of development that not only includes these elements in a central way, but which argues that genuine sustainability must include the cultural dimension, including the notion of cultural justice as recognition, protection and respect extended to the many expressions of human imagination in this world\"--Back cover.
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Forced to Be Good
Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union has done the same. In addition to addressing economic issues, these agreements also regulate the protection of human rights. InForced to Be Good, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton tells the story of the politics of such agreements and of the ways in which governments pursue market integration policies that advance their own political interests, including human rights.
How and why do global norms for social justice become international regulations linked to seemingly unrelated issues, such as trade? Hafner-Burton finds that the process has been unconventional. Efforts by human rights advocates and labor unions to spread human rights ideals, for example, do not explain why American and European governments employ preferential trade agreements to protect human rights. Instead, most of the regulations protecting human rights are codified in global moral principles and laws only because they serve policymakers' interests in accumulating power or resources or solving other problems. Otherwise, demands by moral advocates are tossed aside. And, as Hafner-Burton shows, even the inclusion of human rights protections in trade agreements is no guarantee of real change, because many of the governments that sign on to fair trade regulations oppose such protections and do not intend to force their implementation.
Ultimately, Hafner-Burton finds that, despite the difficulty of enforcing good regulations and the less-than-noble motives for including them, trade agreements that include human rights provisions have made a positive difference in the lives of some of the people they are intended-on paper, at least-to protect.
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Integrating human rights into development : donor approaches, experiences, and challenges
This volume charts donor approaches, experiences, and challenges integrating human rights into development policy. It analyses a range of rationales for donor approaches to human rights and results these have yielded in policies, programmes, and projects.
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UN contributions to development thinking and practice
UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a
history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical
economists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in
shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last half century. The
authors, all prominent in the field of development studies, argue that the UN's
founding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and human
concerns that are at the center of the UN's thinking on economic and human
development today. In the intervening period, the authors show how the UN's approach
to development evolved from mainstream areas of economic development to include
issues of employment, poverty reduction, fairer distribution of the benefits of
growth, equality of men and women, child development, social justice, and
environmental sustainability.
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Who owns this sentence? : a history of copyrights and wrongs
An exploration into how copyright has become a tool of unprecedented power and wealth for the few, widening the gap between the richest and poorest in society.
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Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns
Over the past decade, abolitionist feminist and evangelical Christian activists have directed increasing attention toward the “traffic in women” as a dangerous manifestation of global gender inequalities. Despite renowned disagreements around the politics of sex and gender, these groups have come together to advocate for harsher penalties against traffickers, prostitutes’ customers, and nations deemed to be taking insufficient steps to stem the flow of trafficked women. In this essay, I argue that what has served to unite this coalition of “strange bedfellows” is not simply an underlying commitment to conservative ideals of sexuality, as previous commentators have offered, but an equally significant commitment to carceral paradigms of justice and to militarized humanitarianism as the preeminent mode of engagement by the state. I draw upon my ongoing ethnographic research with feminist and evangelical antitrafficking movement leaders to argue that the alliance that has been so efficacious in framing contemporary antitrafficking politics is the product of two historically unique and intersecting trends: a rightward shift on the part of many mainstream feminists and other secular liberals away from a redistributive model of justice and toward a politics of incarceration, coincident with a leftward sweep on the part of many younger evangelicals toward a globally oriented social justice theology. In the final section of this essay, I consider the resilience of these trends given a newly installed and more progressive Obama administration, positing that they are likely to continue even as the terrain of militarized humanitarian action shifts in accordance with new sets of geopolitical interests.
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Civic self-respect
\"As federal judge Learned Hand said in 1944, \"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women.\" Neither the laws, the courts nor other related institutions can be saved without the underlying exercise of the democratic spirit by the people. Civic Self-Respect argues for civic engagement, where citizens flex the muscles of ownership of our democracy, reminding us that our elected officials work for us-not the other way around-that the public airwaves and public lands are owned by the people, and that speaking your mind to your neighbors and friends can be the start of a movement. In this small volume, Ralph Nader, whose impact on consumer protection and citizen empowerment has been greater than any other American in the last century, goes to the roots of democracy in the people and to our active roles in creating and sustaining citizen action, as workers, taxpayers, consumers, public servants and parents. In all these roles we may find our power and civic self-respect\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Economic development through women’s economic rights: a panel data analysis
Increasing gender equality and enhancing women empowerment through work opportunities are the important steps in achieving sustainable development. The aim of this paper is threefold: (1) to empirically examine the relationship between women economic rights and economic growth for the global sample. (2) To explore whether the effect of women’s economic rights is different across different economies. (3) This paper uses spatial econometric techniques to examine the impact of women’s economic rights on neighbouring countries. For empirical purpose, we use the data for 171 countries over the period 1960–2016. The results show that women’s economic rights positively affect growth; however, the effect is heterogeneous across different economies. From spatial analysis, we confirm that 75% spillover effect of women economic rights is passing through neighbouring country. The results of this study are consistent and coherent with the EU policy about women’s economic empowerment where it claims that joint effort in promoting women empowerment by all actors could lead to sustainable development and growth.
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