On 24 May 1992 President George Bush ordered the United States (US) Coast Guard to stop all persons fleeing Haiti following the overthrow of Jean-Baptiste Aristide the year before. In the following years more than 65,000 persons were interdicted on … Continue reading » “Extraterritorial Migration Control and the Reach of Human Rights”
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La comercialización de la migración internacional y los múltiples actores en la industria migratoria
International Refugee Law and Policy: The case of deterrence policies
International refugee law is seen by many as constitutive for national refugee policy. Yet, as asylum has become politicized, many countries have adopted procedural and physical deterrence mechanisms to prevent refugees from accessing protection. The present article examines these policies, … Continue reading » “International Refugee Law and Policy: The case of deterrence policies”
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Sovereignty at Sea: The law and politics of saving lives in mare liberum
This article analyses the interplay between politics and law in the recent attempts to strengthen the humanitarian commitment to saving lives in mare liberum. Despite a long-standing obligation to aid people in distress at sea, this so-called search and … Continue reading » “Sovereignty at Sea: The law and politics of saving lives in mare liberum”
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Human Rights Advocacy in the United States
This pedagogically innovative book is the first of its kind to focus on human rights advocacy in the United States, illuminating a range of important theoretical and doctrinal issues while equipping students to thoughtfully engage these tools in their own … Continue reading » “Human Rights Advocacy in the United States”
Continue reading“Respect” Human Rights : Concept and Convergence
The Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (‘GPs’) were unanimously endorsed in 2011 in the UN Human Rights Council and also recorded an unprecedented level of stakeholder support. Does this watershed signify a genuine convergence of expectations? Is the … Continue reading » ““Respect” Human Rights : Concept and Convergence”
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Corporate and State Responsibilities in Conflict-Affected Areas
Some of the emblematic cases of corporate-related infringements of human rights have appeared in unstable and violence-ridden zones, including armed conflict and other contexts with lower levels of conflict, internal disturbances, widespread violence and latent tensions. Businesses have been involved … Continue reading » “Corporate and State Responsibilities in Conflict-Affected Areas”
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Aspects of Sovereignty
The overall objective of this unique volume is to understand what effects globalisation has had on the traditional views of sovereignty, seen from a Chinese and European, primarily Swedish, perspective. Does the cultural-historical approach have any value in China today … Continue reading » “Aspects of Sovereignty”
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The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants’ desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth … Continue reading » “The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration”
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