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MAR 31, 2007 • Journal
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Catharine MacKinnon's fundamental claim is that the violence and abuse routinely inflicted on women by men is not treated with the same seriousness accorded to ...
MAR 31, 2007 • Journal
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
These two books are the inaugural releases in Norton's Issues of Our Time series, but they are linked by much more than this fact. Each ...
MAR 22, 2007 • Podcast
The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and the Importance of Human Rights Policies
This talk was part of the event "Taking Stock of Business and Human Rights: Policies and Practices," cosponsored by the Business and Human Rights Resource ...
MAR 22, 2007 • Podcast
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the Emergence of Corporate Human Rights Policies
This talk was part of the event "Taking Stock of Business and Human Rights: Policies and Practices," cosponsored by the Business and Human Rights Resource ...
MAR 22, 2007 • Podcast
Perspectives from BP and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights
This talk was part of the event "Taking Stock of Business and Human Rights: Policies and Practices," cosponsored by the Business and Human Rights Resource ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Argentina, the Church, and the Debt
The Argentine debt crisis of 2001–2002 and its aftermath are examined in the light of the moral framework of Catholic social teaching on the debt problems ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Making the Case for Jubilee: The Catholic Church and the Poor-Country Debt Movement
Since the late 1970s, an increasingly global coalition of churches and nongovernmental organizations has pressed for reduction if not outright cancellation of the foreign debt ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
Risks of Lending and Liability to Others
This essay analyzes why risk and liability are necessary mechanisms of well-functioning markets, and discusses how risk can be handled. In the U.S., inappropriate ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
National Responsibility and the Just Distribution of Debt Relief
The Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative is the largest multilateral effort aimed at providing debt relief. this essay, we address the question of whether ...
MAR 8, 2007 • Journal
The Due Diligence Model: A New Approach to the Problem of Odious Debts
Odious debts are debts incurred by a government without either popular consent or a legitimate public purpose. There is a debate within academic circles as ...