Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations / / ed. by Sigrun Skogly, Mark Gibney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bueno de Mesquita, Judith,; Cahill, Amanda,; Frey, Barbara,; Gammeltoft-­Hansen, Thomas,; Gibney, Mark,; Hunt, Paul,; Khosla, Rajat,; Knox, John H.,; Langford, Malcolm,; Leary, Virginia A.,; Nowak, Manfred,; Skogly, Sigrun,; Windfuhr, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Gibney, Mark,; Skogly, Sigrun,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Globalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relations. This transformation has had a significant impact on the practice of trade law, financial regulation, and environmental law but relatively little effe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Obligations of States to Prevent and Prohibit Torture in an Extraterritorial Perspective
• Chapter 2. Obligations to Protect the Right to Life: Constructing a Rule of Transfer Regarding Small Arms and Light Weapons
• Chapter 3. Growing Barriers: International Refugee Law
• Chapter 4. Diagonal Environmental Rights
• Chapter 5. The Human Rights Responsibility of International Assistance and Cooperation in Health
• Chapter 6. The World Food Crisis and the Right to Adequate Food
• Chapter 7. Labor Standards and Extraterritoriality: Cambodian Textile Exports and the International Labour Organization
• Chapter 8. A Sort of Homecoming: The Right to Housing
• Chapter 9. Protecting Rights in the Face of Scarcity: The Right to Water
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index