Integrating Human Rights into Development Cooperation: The Case of the Lomé Convention / / Karin Arts.

• VerfasserIn: Arts, Karin 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Human rights, democracy and governance concerns are prominent elements in the development cooperation policy of the European Community. The relations between the European Community (EC) and 71 developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) have proved to be a laboratory for developing ideas on these matters, for translating them into binding treaty norms, and for applying them in practice. The experiences gained in the ACP-EC relationship carry special value because they are the product of dialogue and joint decision-making between groups of developed and developing states. Therefore, 25 years of ACP-EC cooperation under the Lomé Convention provide a rich learning ground for anybody involved or interested in (the debate on) linking development cooperation to human rights and to human rights related concerns. This book explores the international law aspects of the subject. It first investigates the general international legal basis for linking development cooperation to human rights, democracy and good governance. Both the negative and positive ways of making such a linking (by punitive and supportive measures) are addressed. The book then delves into the evolution of Lomé treaty norms on the subject, and into the concrete human rights practices that took shape under them. It explores the contributions to and influence of both the EC and ACP states on those treaty provisions and practices. A comprehensive overview is provided of the support measures and sanctions resorted to in response to the human rights situation in ACP countries. The book assesses the overall experiences gained and presents a synthesis of factors that proved to be constraints or conducive to the efforts to integrate human rights fully into ACP-EC development cooperation. The insights gained could well inform similar efforts undertaken by others.

Table of Contents

Preface. -- List of abbreviations. -- Introduction. -- Part I: Human Rights, Democracy and Development. Introductory Remarks to Part I. -- 1. The Global Setting: Human Rights, Democracy and Development Cooperation. -- 2. The Specific Setting: Western European, African, Caribbean and Pacific States' Perspectives on Human Rights and Democracy. Concluding Remarks on Part I. -- Part II: ACP-EC Development Cooperation and Human Rights: The Formal Framework. Introductory Remarks to Part II. -- 3. The Development Cooperation Policy of the European Community. -- 4. Powers, Actors and Procedures in European Community Development Cooperation. -- 5. ACP-EC Development Cooperation and Human Rights: review of the Lomé treaty provisions. Concluding Remarks on Part II. -- Part III: Human Rights in the Practice of ACP-EC Relations. Introductory Remarks to Part III. -- 6. Taking Positions on Human Rights in ACP-EC Relations. -- 7. The Positive Approach: Support for Human Rights and Democracy in ACP Countries. -- 8. The Negative Approach: Sanctions on Violations of Human Rights. Concluding Remarks Part III. -- Final Observations: Lomé - `Paper Tiger' Or Human Rights Guardian. -- Annexes. -- Bibliography. -- Index.