Report on the ... Session

Report on the ... Session
Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2005-05-09
Genre: Middle East
ISBN:

Report

Report
Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1998
Genre: Middle East
ISBN:

The United Nations and Civil Society

The United Nations and Civil Society
Author: Nora McKeon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-10-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 184813276X

The UN is able to recognize key global challenges, but beset by difficulties in trying to resolve them. In this, it represents the current global political balance, but is also the only international institution that could move it forward. Civil society can be a catalyst for this kind of change. In this book, Nora McKeon provides a comprehensive analysis of UN engagement with civil society. The book pays particular attention to food and agriculture, which now lie at the heart of global governance issues. McKeon shows that politically meaningful space for civil society can be introduced into UN policy dialogue. The United Nations and Civil Society also makes the case that it is only by engaging with organizations which legitimately speak for the 'poor' targeted by the Millennium Development Goals that the UN can promote equitable, sustainable development and build global democracy from the ground up. This book has strong ramifications for global governance, civil society and the contemporary debate over the future of food.

Report on the ... Session

Report on the ... Session
Author: United Nations. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2003
Genre: Human rights
ISBN:

Self-Determination as Voice

Self-Determination as Voice
Author: Natalie Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2024-01-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009406337

Self-Determination as Voice addresses the relationship between Indigenous peoples' participation in international governance and the law of self-determination. Many states and international organizations have put in place institutional mechanisms for the express purpose of including Indigenous representatives in international policy-making and decision-making processes, as well as in the negotiation and drafting of international legal instruments. Indigenous peoples' rights have a higher profile in the UN system than ever before. This book argues that the establishment and use of mechanisms and policies to enable a certain level of Indigenous peoples' participation in international governance has become a widespread practice, and perhaps even one that is accepted as law. In theory, the law of self-determination supports this move, and it is arguably emerging as a rule of customary international law. However, ultimately the achievement of the ideal of full and effective participation, in a manner that would fulfil Indigenous peoples' right to self-determination, remains deferred.

State Responsibility for Non-State Actors

State Responsibility for Non-State Actors
Author: Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509951555

This book investigates how state responsibility can be determined for the wrongdoing of non-state actors. Every day, people, businesses and societies around the world pay a price arising from interactions between states and non-state actors. From insurrections that attempt to create new governments, to states arming belligerent proxies operating overseas, to companies damaging natural environments or providing suspect services, the impact of such situations are felt in numerous ways. They also raise many questions relating to responsibility. In answering these, State Responsibility for Non-State Actors provides a picture of what the law governing this area is, what it could be, and what it should be in light of past histories, present realities and future prospects.