Non-State Actors and Human Rights

Book Overview

Can transnational corporations ignore human rights as long as governments don't hold them accountable? If the UN is put in charge of a territory, is it bound by human rights law? Under traditional approaches to human rights, non-state actors cannot be parties to the relevant treaties and so they are only bound to the extent that obligations accepted by States can be applied to them by governments. This situation threatens to make a mockery of much...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199272824
• ISBN13: 9780199272822
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.1"