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THE
FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
n°11
- June 2012 - PDF |
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Introduction
I. What is Poverty?
A. The Semantic Fog
B. A Multidisciplinary Field of Research
C. What is Lacking in the Research
D. Multidimensional Poverty
II. The Lessons of History: Ideology and Poverty
III. Quantifying Poverty
A. Measuring Monetary Poverty
B. Measuring Non-monetary Poverty
C. Figures Relative to Poverty
D. How do These Figures Help Us?
E. And Inequality
IV. Strategies in the Fight against Poverty
A. From Francis of Assisi to the Great Confinement
B. From Mandeville and Marx to Social Citizenship
C. From the ILO to the U.N. and the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights
V. The Break with Neo-liberalism and its Repercussion within
the U.N.
A. Debt, Structural Adjustment Programs, the World
Bank and Its Claim to
Fight Poverty
B. The Millennium Development Goals: A Story of a Preordained
Failure
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Extract by
Francine Mestrum for Public Service Europe:
Global
poverty is a consequence of free-trade ideology |
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Website
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UNDP,
Human Development Report 2001 (pdf) |
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Annual
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General
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General
Assembly Resolution 3202 (S-VI) adopted the 1st May 1974 |
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ESCR,
Substantive Issues Arising in the Implementation of the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Poverty and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
10 May 2001 (§§
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TRANSNATIONAL
CORPORATIONS : MAJOR PLAYERS IN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
n°10
- December 2011
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Contents
Introduction
I. FAILED ATTEMPTS TO SET BINDING INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
FOR TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (TNCs)
A. Previous Efforts
B. Reopening of the Discussion
C. John Ruggie's 2011 Final Report
D. The Global Compact, a Trojan Horse within
the United Nations
II. TNCs, THE
ARMAMENTS INDUSTRY AND THE WAR
A. A Lucrative Large-Scale Private Industry
B. NATO 's “Marketing” of Armaments
C.The Paralysis of the Conference on Disarmament
III. TNCs AND
MERCENARIES
A. An Exponential Phenomenon
B. A Case Study
IV. TRANSNATIONAL
FINANCIAL CAPITAL, CRISES AND THE DETERIORATION OF LIVING CONDITIONS
A. The Hegemony of Financial Capital
B. Financial Crises
Conclusion
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Website
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business Enterprises |
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See the CETIM Issue
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See
the CETIM booklet Transnational Corporations and HUman Rights |
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See
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FOR
THE RESPECT OF THE RIGHTS OF ALL MIGRANT WORKERS
n°9
- October 2011 -
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Contents
Introduction
I. The causes of international migration
II. The Problems and Human Rights Violations encountered by migrants
during the process of migration
III. The situation for migrants in the host country and at their
borders
A) The European Union
1. The situation for regular migrants
2. The situation for irregular migrants
3. The situation for asylum seekers
4. Arbitrary detention
5. The crime of solidarity
B) The situation of domestic workers throughout
the world
IV. Recommendations at the international level to protect
the rights of migrants
Conclusion
Annex |
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Website
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UNDP,
Human Development Report 2009. Overcoming barriers: Human mobility
and development |
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Website
of Migreurop |
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Migreurop,
“A Critical Chronology Of European Migration Policies”
by Alain Morice (CNRS-University
Paris-Diderot) for Migreurop
6th September 2011 |
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Website
of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) |
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December
18, The UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies and Migrant Workers: a Samizdat
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MERCENARIES,
MERCENARISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
n°8
- Novembre 2010
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Annex 1 - International
Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of
Mercenaries |
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Annex 2 - Convention
for the Elimination of Mercenaries in Africa |
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Annex 3 - Draft
Convention on Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC) |
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Website
of the Working Group of Experts on the use of mercenaries |
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The Montreux
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INTERNATIONAL,
REGIONAL, SUBREGIONAL AND BILATERAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS
n°7
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Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties. Mapping the role of human
rights law within investor-state arbitration
by Luke Eric Peterson, Ed. Rights and Democracy - International
Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (2009) |
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Bolivia
y el CIADI: crónica de un divorcio anunciado
Equipo de
Análisis Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Cultos de
Bolivia, only in Spanish (July 2010) |
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Trade
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UNCTAD |
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organismes exigent plus de transparence et de consultation de la
population concernant les négociations d’un accord
de libre-échange Canada-Union européen
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THE
RIGHT TO WATER
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THE
RIGHTS OF PEASANTS
n°5
- September 2009
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Annex
1 - Declaration
of Rights of Peasants - Women and Men, adopted by La Vía Campesina
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Voluntary guidelines to support the progressive realization of the
right to adequate food in the context of national food security, FAO
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TRANSBOUNDARY
TRANSFERS OF TOXIC WASTES AND THEIR EFFECT ON HUMAN RIGHTS
n°4
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Annex
7 - Rotterdam
Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous
Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (revised version
2005)
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Annex
12 - Norms
on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other
business enterprises with regard to human rights (adopted by
the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
in 2003)
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THE
GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS AND THE RIGHT TO FOOD
n°3
- December 2008
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Website
of the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler
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THE
OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL
AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (ICESCR)
n°2
- November 2008
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THE
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND ITS MECHANISMS
n°1
- March 2008
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