Confronting the impunity of non-state actors: New fields for the promotion of human rights

Human Rights Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-79

  Jochnick, Chris ^a  

^a Ctr for Economic and Social Rights   (United States)

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HUMAN RIGHTS; LEGISLATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0032951248     PISSN: 02750392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hrq.1999.0008     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. UNDP, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2, 88 (1998) (citing latest world development indicators). This article will not address the many historical reasons for these biases in the movement, nor the pragmatic reasons that continue to restrain many advocates. For recent commentaries on these trends, see Makau Matua, Human Rights Ideology, 36 U. VA. INT'L L.J. 589 (1996); Legia Bolivar, Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales: Dembar Mitos, Enfrentar Retos, Tender Puentes: una Vision desde la (in)Experiencia de America Latina, in 5 ESTUDIOS BASICOS DE DERECHOS HUMANOS (Instutito Interamericano de Derechos Humanos ed., 1996). See a/so Chris Jochnick, A New Generation of Human Rights Activism, HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: CARNEGIE COUNCIL, Sept. 1997, at 3-5 (citing examples of NGOs addressing economic, social, and cultural rights). The term third-party states is meant to describe all other states beyond the one in question. See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON: THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF OIL DEVELOPMENT 1 (1994). The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has just released a report of its investigation of this issue. Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Ecuador, InterAm. Comm'n on Hum. Rts., O.A.S. DOC. OEA/Ser.L/V/11.96, doc.10 rev.1 (1997). See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, supra note 4, at x.
2. UNDP, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2, 88 (1998) (citing latest world development indicators). This article will not address the many historical reasons for these biases in the movement, nor the pragmatic reasons that continue to restrain many advocates. For recent commentaries on these trends, see Makau Matua, Human Rights Ideology, 36 U. VA. INT'L L.J. 589 (1996); Legia Bolivar, Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales: Dembar Mitos, Enfrentar Retos, Tender Puentes: una Vision desde la (in)Experiencia de America Latina, in 5 ESTUDIOS BASICOS DE DERECHOS HUMANOS (Instutito Interamericano de Derechos Humanos ed., 1996). See a/so Chris Jochnick, A New Generation of Human Rights Activism, HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: CARNEGIE COUNCIL, Sept. 1997, at 3-5 (citing examples of NGOs addressing economic, social, and cultural rights). The term third-party states is meant to describe all other states beyond the one in question. See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON: THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF OIL DEVELOPMENT 1 (1994). The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has just released a report of its investigation of this issue. Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Ecuador, InterAm. Comm'n on Hum. Rts., O.A.S. DOC. OEA/Ser.L/V/11.96, doc.10 rev.1 (1997). See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, supra note 4, at x.
3. UNDP, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2, 88 (1998) (citing latest world development indicators). This article will not address the many historical reasons for these biases in the movement, nor the pragmatic reasons that continue to restrain many advocates. For recent commentaries on these trends, see Makau Matua, Human Rights Ideology, 36 U. VA. INT'L L.J. 589 (1996); Legia Bolivar, Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales: Dembar Mitos, Enfrentar Retos, Tender Puentes: una Vision desde la (in)Experiencia de America Latina, in 5 ESTUDIOS BASICOS DE DERECHOS HUMANOS (Instutito Interamericano de Derechos Humanos ed., 1996). See a/so Chris Jochnick, A New Generation of Human Rights Activism, HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: CARNEGIE COUNCIL, Sept. 1997, at 3-5 (citing examples of NGOs addressing economic, social, and cultural rights). The term third-party states is meant to describe all other states beyond the one in question. See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON: THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF OIL DEVELOPMENT 1 (1994). The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has just released a report of its investigation of this issue. Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Ecuador, InterAm. Comm'n on Hum. Rts., O.A.S. DOC. OEA/Ser.L/V/11.96, doc.10 rev.1 (1997). See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, supra note 4, at x.
4. UNDP, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2, 88 (1998) (citing latest world development indicators). This article will not address the many historical reasons for these biases in the movement, nor the pragmatic reasons that continue to restrain many advocates. For recent commentaries on these trends, see Makau Matua, Human Rights Ideology, 36 U. VA. INT'L L.J. 589 (1996); Legia Bolivar, Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales: Dembar Mitos, Enfrentar Retos, Tender Puentes: una Vision desde la (in)Experiencia de America Latina, in 5 ESTUDIOS BASICOS DE DERECHOS HUMANOS (Instutito Interamericano de Derechos Humanos ed., 1996). See a/so Chris Jochnick, A New Generation of Human Rights Activism, HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: CARNEGIE COUNCIL, Sept. 1997, at 3-5 (citing examples of NGOs addressing economic, social, and cultural rights). The term third-party states is meant to describe all other states beyond the one in question. See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON: THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF OIL DEVELOPMENT 1 (1994). The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has just released a report of its investigation of this issue. Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Ecuador, InterAm. Comm'n on Hum. Rts., O.A.S. DOC. OEA/Ser.L/V/11.96, doc.10 rev.1 (1997). See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, supra note 4, at x.
5. UNDP, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2, 88 (1998) (citing latest world development indicators). This article will not address the many historical reasons for these biases in the movement, nor the pragmatic reasons that continue to restrain many advocates. For recent commentaries on these trends, see Makau Matua, Human Rights Ideology, 36 U. VA. INT'L L.J. 589 (1996); Legia Bolivar, Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales: Dembar Mitos, Enfrentar Retos, Tender Puentes: una Vision desde la (in)Experiencia de America Latina, in 5 ESTUDIOS BASICOS DE DERECHOS HUMANOS (Instutito Interamericano de Derechos Humanos ed., 1996). See a/so Chris Jochnick, A New Generation of Human Rights Activism, HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: CARNEGIE COUNCIL, Sept. 1997, at 3-5 (citing examples of NGOs addressing economic, social, and cultural rights). The term third-party states is meant to describe all other states beyond the one in question. See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON: THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF OIL DEVELOPMENT 1 (1994). The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has just released a report of its investigation of this issue. Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Ecuador, InterAm. Comm'n on Hum. Rts., O.A.S. DOC. OEA/Ser.L/V/11.96, doc.10 rev.1 (1997). See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, supra note 4, at x.
6. UNDP, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2, 88 (1998) (citing latest world development indicators). This article will not address the many historical reasons for these biases in the movement, nor the pragmatic reasons that continue to restrain many advocates. For recent commentaries on these trends, see Makau Matua, Human Rights Ideology, 36 U. VA. INT'L L.J. 589 (1996); Legia Bolivar, Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales: Dembar Mitos, Enfrentar Retos, Tender Puentes: una Vision desde la (in)Experiencia de America Latina, in 5 ESTUDIOS BASICOS DE DERECHOS HUMANOS (Instutito Interamericano de Derechos Humanos ed., 1996). See a/so Chris Jochnick, A New Generation of Human Rights Activism, HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: CARNEGIE COUNCIL, Sept. 1997, at 3-5 (citing examples of NGOs addressing economic, social, and cultural rights). The term third-party states is meant to describe all other states beyond the one in question. See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON: THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF OIL DEVELOPMENT 1 (1994). The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has just released a report of its investigation of this issue. Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Ecuador, InterAm. Comm'n on Hum. Rts., O.A.S. DOC. OEA/Ser.L/V/11.96, doc.10 rev.1 (1997). See CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS, supra note 4, at x.