Complex Interactions: Why President Clinton De-Linked Human Rights Conditions from the Criteria for China's Most Favored Nation Status

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward L. Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Most Favored Nation ◽  
Complex Interactions

scholarly journals Evaluating Competing “Democratic” Discourses: The Impact on Human Rights Protection in Southeast Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Gomez ◽  
Robin Ramcharan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The Impact

This paper evaluates the impact of competing “democratic” discourses on human rights protection in Southeast Asia. The authors identify three key discourses emanating from a set of national governmental policies, advocacy positions promoted by both global and local civil society and international standards and procedures adopted by members of inter-governmental organisations. These discourses, the authors argue, are collectively shaping the emerging ASEAN inter-governmental human rights regime. The political impact of these competing “democratic” discourses and their complex interactions bring a cultural dimension to regional human rights. The authors argue that observers seeking to understand the emergence of norms, the establishment of institutions and their capacity to collectively protect regional human rights, need to understand these competing discourses.

Transitional Justice and Indigenous Jurisdictions Processes in Colombia

2020 ◽  
pp. 686-710
Author(s):  
Angela Santamaria ◽  
Monica Acosta ◽  
Mauricio Alejandro Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
International Production ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
Indigenous Organizations

Transitional justice and its range of mechanisms and goals appear to be an important debate about how to deal with past human rights abuses in transition societies or post conflicts. Because of the Peace and Justice Law 975 of 2005 and the actual Colombian scenario of a peace process between the Colombian state and FARC, the analysis of this kind of “justice” and the indigenous jurisdiction appear to be a complex subject in Colombia. The authors would like to discuss, the different uses of international and national laws concerning Indigenous peoples in Colombia, as a social process of complex interactions involving different types of agents (State actors, NGOs, international organizations, indigenous organizations, lawyers, etc.). In addition, it will be important to discuss how the transitional justice framework in Colombia brings up some incongruence to coordinate and apply concepts accordingly to the indigenous jurisdiction, drawing on four case studies and ethnographical work dealing with the international production of customary law.

Transitional Justice and Indigenous Jurisdictions Processes in Colombia

2016 ◽  
pp. 397-420
Author(s):  
Angela Santamaria ◽  
Monica Acosta ◽  
Mauricio Alejandro Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
International Production ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
Indigenous Organizations

Transitional justice and its range of mechanisms and goals appear to be an important debate about how to deal with past human rights abuses in transition societies or post conflicts. Because of the Peace and Justice Law 975 of 2005 and the actual Colombian scenario of a peace process between the Colombian state and FARC, the analysis of this kind of “justice” and the indigenous jurisdiction appear to be a complex subject in Colombia. The authors would like to discuss, the different uses of international and national laws concerning Indigenous peoples in Colombia, as a social process of complex interactions involving different types of agents (State actors, NGOs, international organizations, indigenous organizations, lawyers, etc.). In addition, it will be important to discuss how the transitional justice framework in Colombia brings up some incongruence to coordinate and apply concepts accordingly to the indigenous jurisdiction, drawing on four case studies and ethnographical work dealing with the international production of customary law.

The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights, Robin Blackburn, London: Verso, 2011

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Charles Post
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New World ◽  
Causal Explanation ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Us South ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Plantation Slavery ◽  
The Us

Abstract Plantation slavery in the New World, in particular its relationship to the emergence of capitalism in Europe and North America, has long been a subject of debate and discussion among historians and social scientists. While there are literally thousands of monographs studying various aspects of chattel slavery in the US South, the Caribbean and Brazil, only a handful of works attempt to provide a synthetic account of its rise and decline from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Few scholars, on the Left or Right, have made as profound a contribution to such a history as Robin Blackburn. Blackburn’s latest work, The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights, does not simply summarise and update his earlier work, but extends his analysis to the rise and decline of ‘second slavery’ in nineteenth-century Cuba, Brazil and the US South. The American Crucible provides a multi-causal explanation of the origins and abolition of New World plantation slavery, examining the complex interactions between the rise of capitalism, political crises in the metropolitan countries, the transformation of popular and elite attitudes toward slavery, and the struggles of the slaves themselves. However, Blackburn’s inability to grapple with the specific structure and dynamics of capitalist and slave social-property relations, and their changing historical relationship, weakens key elements of his analysis.

scholarly journals From Silence to Radical Politics: Ethics, Affect and Becoming-disobedient

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippa Page
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Crimes Against Humanity ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
New Public ◽  
Do So

This article seeks to map out the notion of disobedience as it is conceptualised and practiced by the recently formed Argentine collective “Historias Desobedientes. Hijas, hijos y familiares de genocidas por la memoria, la verdad y la justicia” and its eponymous Chilean counterpart. To do so, it explores the published writings and artistic expressions of some of the collective’s members, as well as citing recent ethnographic work with some of the women who have publicly broken this “family mandate” by openly condemning their own fathers’ crimes against humanity. The analysis aims to better understand the complex interactions between ethics, affect and politics in these disobedient becomings. The article takes a comparative, transnational approach. By exploring dialogues that have been opened up between the Argentine collective and disobedient women located in Chile and Germany respectively, it asks what has enabled the emergence of these new public actors within the local sphere of human rights activism decades after the dictatorships ended? It considers not only how the Historias Desobedientes have been shaped by local human rights struggles, but also the ways in which they offer their own contours to the increasingly intersectional and transnational agenda. Particular attention is paid to the seminal influence of contemporary, intersectional feminism in articulating this specific praxis of disobedience as a non-violent challenge, not only to the resurgent discourses of reconciliation, impunity and/or denial, but furthermore to the long-embedded patriarchal and capitalist structures underpinning them.

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