Global Responsibility for Human Rights

Margot E. Salomon, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a member of the Centres Advisory Board, serves as Advisor to the United Nations High-Level Task Force on the Right to Development and has held a Visiting Lectureship at the UN University in Tokyo. Dr Salomon and has been a consultant to government on human rights and foreign policy and regularly trains diplomatic staff on human rights. She received her PhD from the LSE.

This lucid, well-written, and scrupulously researched book moves forward the discourse on international obligations to eliminate the bane of worldwide poverty.

• Foreword by Stephen P. Marks ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. INTERDEPENDENCE AND ITS IMPERATIVES ; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 Towards an International Community of States ; 1.2.1 Locating the international community ; 1.2.2 International law of cooperation as the law of the international community ; 1.2.3 Reconciling sovereignty and interdependence ; 1.2.4 The influence of interdependence on international law ; 1.2.5 The continued predominance of cooperative internationalism in the 21st century ; 1.3 Globalization in an Era of Human Rights ; 1.3.1 Economic globalization as a structural impediment to the exercise of human rights ; 1.3.2 Poverty as a human rights issue ; 1.4 The Structural Approach to the Realization of Human Rights ; 1.4.1 The right to development ; 1.4.2 The position of treaty-bodies ; 1.5 Conclusion ; 2. SOURCES AND CONTENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO COOPERATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 The Sources of Cooperation for Human Rights in International Law ; 2.3 Cooperation and Shared Responsibility in International Human Rights Instruments ; 2.3.1 International cooperation in human rights conventions and declarations ; 2.3.1.1 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other human rights conventions ; 2.3.1.2 Declarations ; 2.3.1.3 The legal basis of international cooperation in the right to development ; 2.3.1.4 The normative force of the Declaration on the Right to Development ; 2.3.1.5 International cooperation and shared responsibility at world conferences ; 2.4 The Content of International Cooperation ; 2.4.1 The position of Northern states ; 2.4.2 'Maximum available resources' ; 2.4.3 The structural content of international cooperation ; 2.5 Conclusion ; 3. THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN-CENTERED GLOBALIZATION ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 The 'Right-Holder' of the Right to Development ; 3.3 The Right to Development as a Particular Process of Development ; 3.3.1 The indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights and the conditioning of economic policy ; 3.3.2 Rights-based economic growth ; 3.3.3 Obligations of conduct at the international level ; 3.3.4 Principles of the right to development ; 3.3.4.1 Equality and non-discrimination ; 3.3.4.2 Participation ; 3.3.4.3 Accountability ; 3.4 The Current Incongruence of International Legal Regimes ; 3.5 Conclusion ; 4. A DOCTRINE OF BASIC UNIVERSAL RIGHTS AND SUPRA-POSITIVE OBLIGATIONS ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Beyond Legal Positivism ; 4.3 The Universal Principle to Respect and Observe Human Rights ; 4.4 What Constitutes Basic Rights Today? ; 4.5 Basic Rights and Community Obligations ; 4.6 Conclusion ; 5. ATTRIBUTING GLOBAL LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY ; 5.1 Introduction ; 5.2 The Due Diligence Requirement and the Global Standard of Care ; 5.3 A Typology for World Poverty: International Obligations to Remedy and to Prevent Human Rights Violations ; 5.4. Conclusion ; 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS: LATTER-DAY TYRANNY AND THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS