Do transnational economic effects violate human rights?

Beyond Claim‐Rights: Social Structure, Collectivization, and Human Rights

“…Non claim‐right approaches to human rights have been accused of outlining utopian goals rather than rights proper (Cranston 1983). It has also been suggested that these purported rights are superfluous to moral reasoning because they play no distinct normative role (Tomalty 2014), that they do not constitute full moral principles (Meckled‐Garcia 2009; 2013), and that they cannot properly accommodate the notion of violation (Tomalty 2014). Below it is explained that the account proposed does indeed subvert the meaning of a “right” in a way that falls foul of some but not all of these accusations.…”

“…However, without an account of the burdens agents must assume in order to bring about these standards, it could be claimed that a human rights do not constitute a full moral principle (Meckled‐Garcia 2009; 2013), and that without knowing who is obligated to do what with regard to socially guaranteeing them, we cannot assess whether it is reasonable to require they are socially guaranteed. Each of these problems will be considered in turn.…”

International Human Rights Obligations within the States System: The Avoidance Account

“… For a careful normative analysis of these sorts of cases, see Meckled‐Garcia . For a legal analysis, see De Schutter et al , pp.…”