China: getting human rights right
In: The Washington quarterly, Volume 20, p. 135-151
ISSN: 0163-660X, 0147-1465
Analyzes evolution of US foreign policy towards human rights violations in China, 1970s-1990s; US policy options.
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In: The Washington quarterly, Volume 20, p. 135-151
ISSN: 0163-660X, 0147-1465
Analyzes evolution of US foreign policy towards human rights violations in China, 1970s-1990s; US policy options.
In: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-6nq8-fw21
Most of the many critics who denounce Citizens United v. FEC and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., ground their complaint in consequentialist terms, at least in part. They see these decisions as entrenching corporate power, by constitutional or quasi-constitutional means, against what ought to be a supervening public will. This Article argues for a different view. Far from entrenching corporate power, the rights cases effectively delegate choices about corporate activities to a politically sensitive, if surprising, instrument:ordinary state legislation. In particular, this Article advances two claims about the nature of states' rights against corporate rights: first, under existing law, the states can subvert the federal rights of their own corporations; second, and more speculatively, the states can also frustrate the federal rights of foreign corporations that do local business. The analysis suggests that reformers would do well to look to the state capitols rather than the halls of Washington. It also yields implications for the theory of interstate corporate regulation more generally.
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In: Human rights law review, Volume 2, Issue 2, p. 181-197
ISSN: 1744-1021
In: Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 51/2010
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"This publication provides an introduction to women's human rights, beginning with the main provisions in international human rights law and going on to explain particularly relevant concepts for fully understanding women's human rights. Finally, selected areas of women's human rights are examined together with information on the main work of United Nations human rights mechanisms and others pertaining to these topics. The aim of the publication is to offer a basic understanding of the human rights of women as a whole, but because of the wide variety of issues relevant to women's human rights, it should not be considered exhaustive."--P. 1
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The language of ""rights"" pervades modern social and political discourse - from prisoners' to unborn babies' - yet there is deep disagreement amongst citizens, politicians and philosophers about just what they mean. Who has them? Who should have them? Who can claim them? What are the grounds upon which they can be claimed? How are they related to other important moral and political values such as community, virtue, autonomy, democracy and social justice? In this book, Duncan Ivison offers a unique and accessible integration of, and introduction to, the history and philosophy of rights. He foc
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In: Vital Interests: The United States in a New Global Paradigm 2020 https://www.centeronnationalsecurity.org/vital-interests-issue-46-hurst-hannum
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