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International Poverty Law An Emerging Discourse

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ISBN-10: 1842776843

ISBN-13: 9781842776841

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lucy Williams, Juliana Mart�nez Franzoni, Thomas Pogge

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This book seeks to advance the emerging field of international poverty law. While law and development discourse has dealt with international poverty, advocates of poverty reduction customarily operate within a nation-state context. The contributors to this volume, while largely, although not exclusively, relying on human rights discourse and United Nations, International Labour Organization and World Trade Organization initiatives as their primary legal sources, begin to position international poverty law as a legitimate field for transnational, multidisciplinary legal research and dialogue. While critiquing both legal theory and current policy, they nevertheless open up a constructive…    
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Book details

List price: $100.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 1/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Juliana Martnez Franzoni is Associate Professor at the University of Costa Rica (Institute for Social Research), and is editor of ZED/CROP's series on global poverty. Her recent publications include Good Jobs and Social Services (2012) and Domesticar la Incertidumbre en America Latina (2008). She has published in many journals, including Development and Change, Global Social Policy, and Social Politics.

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Poverty as a failure of entitlement: do rights-based approaches make sense?
Biodiversity versus biotechnology: an economic and environmental struggle for life
The right to food: the significance of the United Nations Special Rapporteur
South African poverty law: the role and influence of international human rights instruments
Child labour in India and the international human rights discourse
Privatizing human rights? The role of corporate codes of conduct
Developing universal anti-poverty regimes: the role of the United Nations in the establishment of international poverty law
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