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Introduction: Making Human Rights Work in a Globalizing World
06/19/03
The contributions to this issue of Human Rights Dialogue make clear that our understanding of human rights obligations must continue to evolve, adapting to the existing and changing needs of groups that are struggling to achieve social justice.
Author(s):
Mary Robinson
Building Global Solidarity
06/19/03
Ryan discusses how increased global economic integration has led American unions to build stronger links with workers worldwide. While collaboration can be difficult, he shows why the Solidarity Center’s work in Cambodia has been particularly successful.
Author(s):
Timothy Ryan
Cooperation and Conflict
06/19/03
Acknowledging that the international anti-sweatshop movement has been effective in achieving higher labor standards for workers in the South, Carolina Quinteros contends that transnational alliances are a mixed bag for activists working at the local level.
Author(s):
Carolina Quinteros
Winning the Water War
06/19/03
Olivera and Viaña recount how Bolivians mobilized a successful campaign to overturn the government’s decision to privatize their local water system.
Author(s):
Marcela Olivera,
Jorge Viaña
Privatization and Socioeconomic Rights
06/19/03
In response to the recent efforts to privatize basic services in South Africa, Chirwa argues that companies are obliged to uphold the economic and social rights enshrined in the South African Constitution.
Author(s):
Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa
Prioritizing Rights
06/19/03
Argentina Santacruz and Juana Sotomayor illustrate the different ways that their organization is attempting to hold the Ecuadorian government accountable for undermining economic and social rights by devoting much of the country’s resources to debt repayment.
Author(s):
Argentina Santacruz,
Juana Sotomayor
Monitoring International Financial Institutions: An Interview with Flavia Barros
06/19/03
In an interview with Dialogue, Flavia Barros discusses her work with the network of social organizations in Brazil that has been monitoring projects funded by international financial institutions.
Author(s):
Flavia Barros
Protecting Knowledge
06/19/03
Justin VanFleet argues that the international intellectual property regime threatens the rights of indigenous knowledge holders. He describes an innovative approach to this problem—creating databases that document traditional knowledge for patent offices.
Author(s):
Justin VanFleet
Gagging Democracy
06/19/03
Using the so-called Global Gag Rule as a case study, Marianne Mollmann argues that donor countries often undermine human rights in developing countries through the restrictions they place on aid.
Author(s):
Marianne Mollmann
Holding Investors to Account
06/19/03
Kate Geary and Nicholas Hildyard describe how activists in the United Kingdom and Turkey mobilized to stop construction of the Ilisu Dam, a project that was funded by the export credit agencies of nine different countries.
Author(s):
Kate Geary,
Nicholas Hildyard
Mining for the People
06/19/03
After a brutal war funded by the trade of diamonds, Brima maintains that public participation in the diamond mining sector is crucial to peaceful long-term development in Sierra Leone. Crossin critiques the international diamond certification process that seeks to eliminate conflict diamonds.
Author(s):
Abu Brima,
Corene Crossin
Beyond Reports and Promises
06/19/03
The International Labor Rights Fund has formed partnerships with local activists to use the U.S. court system to hold multinational corporations accountable for human rights violations abroad, and unions have confronted UNOCAL in Burma and Coca Cola in Columbia.
Author(s):
Terry Collingsworth,
U Maung Maung,
Javier Correa
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