Alternatives toausterity: a human rights framework foreconomic recovery

Carmona, Magdalena Sepúlveda

doi:10.1017/cbo9781107337954.003

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“…Elsewhere, Sepúlveda Carmona mirrors the CESCR's work more explicitly when she emphasises the range of steps to be taken before enacting a retrogressive measure and thus pointing towards the second definition. 46 There is also a tension here in the CESCR's work. As Nolan notes, 'the Committee has never addressed the difference between retrogressive measures that are deliberate and those that are not'.…”

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Unwinding Retrogression: Examining the Practice of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?

Warwick

2019

Human Rights Law Review

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The doctrine of non-retrogression used by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is apt for the current moment of crisis and withdrawal from human rights standards. It addresses instances where the State is responsible for backwards steps in human rights protection. However, the doctrine has rarely been used by the Committee as it is paralysed within conceptual confusion and practical ambiguity. This article unravels those difficulties and highlights ways forward. It gives a brief history of non-retrogression and identifies what backwardness the doctrine seeks to regulate, which actions and inactions of the State it defines as culpable, how the multiple steps of the doctrine are to be proved and where the doctrine fits within the Committee’s processes of scrutiny. Overall, it is argued that the significant potential of the doctrine is constrained by its confusions and that urgent reforms are needed to ensure its use and effectiveness.

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confidence: 99%

Unwinding Retrogression: Examining the Practice of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?

Warwick

2019

Human Rights Law Review

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“…Salter’s observations resonate with feminist activists’ critiques of White Ribbon Day, which arguably serves as a forum for politicians and celebrities to parade their commitment to stopping violence against women, while simultaneously denying funding for women’s shelters, legal aid programmes and frontline services. Many countries are cutting back and undermining the services that are essential for women’s safety, which will make it harder for women to leave violent relationships and to seek protection (Carmona, 2014: 36; Hill and Cohen, 2015; Sharaz, 2017). In Nina Funnell’s influential call to stop donating to White Ribbon, she points out the proliferation of ‘awareness raising’ as an end in itself, a series of token gestures that become a cheap substitute for real action (Funnell, 2016).…”

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Telling stories of rape, revenge and redemption in the age of the TED talk

Crawley

Simić

2018

Crime, Media, Culture

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The last few years have witnessed increasing discussion of sexual violence in the mainstream media and public debate in North America and elsewhere, especially with the most recent wave of sexual assault and harassment allegations in entertainment, media and public institutions, called the #MeToo campaign. Despite the view that men must be engaged in this conversation in order to be effective at preventing violence and changing deep-seated patriarchal attitudes, the place of male voices in this ongoing conversation is hotly in question. This article analyzes an unusual and controversial project by Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger, who, 20 years after Stranger raped Elva, produced a TED talk (2016) watched by over 3 million people, and a jointly written book, South of Forgiveness (Elva and Stranger, 2017), detailing their story of forgiveness and redemption. The first part of this article situates this unprecedented victim-rapist enterprise within the history of feminist anti-rape politics and men’s involvement in that politics, arguing that this project both instantiates, and critiques, an appeal to the ‘good man’. The second part analyzes the book South of Forgiveness as a survivor story that is more complex than the highly reductive format of a TED talk allows, and shows how its uneasy fit within the putative frameworks of ‘restorative’ or informal justice (as Elva and others claim it to be) is a function of the unacknowledged dimension to the performance in the form of revenge. The third part of the article turns to Elva’s and Stranger’s public performances that began with the TED talk and book tour, which we attended, to show how this function of revenge played out theatrically and implicates the spectator as bystander and witness. We conclude by reflecting upon the implications of listening to male perpetrators speak against sexual violence against women and our responsibility towards these questions as feminist legal academics.

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“…In addition to the economic consequences, neoliberal turbulences also affected the social rights of entire classes and societies. Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona (2014) notes that ‘by 2009, at least 100 million more people were hungry and undernourished, a situation that continues to deteriorate owing to escalating food prices’ (pp. 23–24).…”

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From crisis to crisis: Capitalism, chaos and constant unpredictability

Chowdhury

Żuk

2018

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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Far from being an event of a decade ago, the 2008 global financial crisis is a manifestation of an ongoing crisis of the world order, with social, political and ecological dimensions that cannot be seen separately from each other. The root cause of the crisis can be traced back to the collapse of the Bretton Woods System in August 1971, and the failure to design an equitable and inclusive global financial and economic governance architecture consistent with the changed global economic realities. The vacuum was quickly taken up by the neoliberal orthodoxy that pushed the agenda of wholesale liberalisation, resulting in unprecedented domination of speculative finance capital and multinational corporation–led globalisation. This has seen falling share of wages in national income, growing wealth concentration, rising income inequality and ballooning of household debts. The consequence was frequent and increasingly deeper and wider financial crises.

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Alternatives toausterity: a human rights framework foreconomic recovery

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Unwinding Retrogression: Examining the Practice of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?

Unwinding Retrogression: Examining the Practice of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?

Telling stories of rape, revenge and redemption in the age of the TED talk

From crisis to crisis: Capitalism, chaos and constant unpredictability

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