Contesting world order? socioeconomic rights and global justice movements

What do equality, dignity and rights mean in a world where eight men own as much wealth as half the world's population? Contesting World Order? Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements examines how global justice movements have engaged the language of socioeconomic rights to contest gl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wills, Joe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
Series:Globalization and human rights
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Power, hegemony and world order; 2. Neo-liberal globalisation and socioeconomic rights: an overview; 3. Food security vs food sovereignty: the contestation of the meaning of the right to food under international law; 4. Intellectual property, the right to health and the global access to medicines campaign; 5. A commodity or a right? Evoking the human right to water to challenge neo-liberal water governance