NCJ Number
186531
Editor(s)
Michael McClintock,
Malcolm Smart
Date Published
2000
Length
569 pages
Annotation
This report indicates that the scope of global human rights problems far exceeds the capacity of global institutions to address them and that human rights problems are most acute in the realm of economic globalization.
Abstract
Human rights problems also occur as the world struggles to stop mass atrocities, protect the victims of these crimes, rebuild countries, and bring human rights violators to justice. Weaknesses in the institutional capacity to address global human rights challenges are described, and the enforcement gap for human rights issues in the global economy is highlighted. Consideration is also paid to inadequate resources given to the United Nations to assume its assigned tasks of keeping the peace and assisting war-torn nations with national construction and to recent strides made toward establishing a new institutional justice system for the world's worst human rights criminals. Human rights practices in 70 countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Central Asia are reviewed. A human rights framework for addressing many of the problems of globalization is presented, along with information on the need for stronger institutions, voluntary codes of conduct, anti-corruption measures, international financial institutions, and international justice and tribunals.