UID:
edocfu_9959202153202883
Format:
1 online resource (222 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4742-0101-6
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1-78225-590-7
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1-4742-0146-6
Content:
Poor public resource management and the global financial crisis curbing fundamental fiscal space, millions thrown into poverty, and authoritarian regimes running successful criminal campaigns with the help of financial assistance are all phenomena that raise fundamental questions around finance and human rights. They also highlight the urgent need for more systematic and robust legal and economic thinking about sovereign finance and human rights. This edited collection aims to contribute to filling this gap by introducing novel legal theories and analyses of the links between sovereign debt and human rights from a variety of perspectives. These chapters include studies of financial complicity, UN sanctions, ethics, transitional justice, criminal law, insolvency proceedings, millennium development goals, global financial architecture, corporations, extraterritoriality, state of necessity, sovereign wealth and hedge funds, project financing, state responsibility, international financial institutions, the right to development, UN initiatives, litigation, as well as case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America. These chapters are then theorised by the editors in an introductory chapter. In July 2012 the UN Human Rights Council finally issued its own guidelines on foreign debt and human rights, yet much remains to be done to promote better understanding of the legal and economic implications of the interface between finance and human rights. This book will contribute to that understanding as well as help practitioners in their everyday work. The authors include world-renowned lawyers and economists, experienced practitioners and officials from international organisations
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Placing Human Rights at the Centre of Sovereign Financing --
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Rational Choice and Financial Complicity with Human Rights Abuses : Policy and Legal Implications --
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UN Sanctions that Safeguard, Undermine, or Both, Human Rights --
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The Significance of Human Rights for the Debt of Countries in Transition --
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Establishing Liability for Financial Complicity in International Crimes --
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Human Rights and Sovereign Debt Workouts --
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A Sovereign Debt Overhang, Human Rights and the MDGs : Legal Problems through an Economist's Lens --
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Debts and State of Necessity --
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Global Financial Architecture and Human Rights --
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Sovereign Financing and Corporate Responsibility for Economic and Social Rights --
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Ethical Sovereign Investors : Sovereign Wealth Funds and Human Rights --
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Sovereign Financing and the Human Rights Responsibilities of Private Creditors --
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Project Finance and Human Rights --
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Enhancing the International Monetary Fund's Compliance with Human Rights : The Issue of Accountability --
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Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations and Irresponsible Sovereign Financing --
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Sovereign Debt and Human Rights : The United Nations Approach --
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Bloody Bucks? : Foreign Finance and Armed Conflicts in Africa --
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Development, Sovereign Support to Finance and Human Rights : Lessons from India --
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Contemporary Lessons from Carter's Incorporation of Human Rights into the Financing of Southern Cone Dictatorships --
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Engagement, Divestment or Both? Conflicts and Interactions : The Case of the Norwegian Pension Fund --
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Towards Making Blood Money Visible : Lessons Drawn from the Apartheid Litigation --
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Also issued in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84946-556-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474201469
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