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Introduction 1

1. Interdependence and Its Imperatives 13

1.1 Introduction 13

1.2 Towards an International Community of States 15

1.2.1 Locating the international community 15

1.2.2 International law of cooperation as the law of the international community 21

1.2.3 Reconciling sovereignty and interdependence 25

1.2.4 The influence of interdependence on international law 28

1.2.5 The continued predominance of cooperative internationalism in the twenty-fust century 32

1.3 Globalization in an Era of Human Rights 39

1.3.1 Economic globalization as a structural impediment to the exercise of human rights 39

1.3.2 Poverty as a human rights issue 47

1.4 The Structural Approach to the Realization of Human Rights 50

1.4.1 The right to development 50

1.4.2 The position of treaty-bodies 56

1.5 Conclusion 60

2. Sources and Content of an International Responsibility to Cooperate for Human Rights 64

2.1 Introduction 64

2.2 The Sources of Cooperation for Human Rights in International Law 65

2.3 Cooperation and Shared Responsibility in International Human Rights Instruments 71

2.3.1 International cooperation in human rights conventions and declarations 71

2.3.1.1 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other Human Rights Conventions 75

2.3.1.2 Declarations 83

2.3.1.3 The legal basis of international cooperation in the right to development 85

2.3.1.4 Ihe normative force of the Declaration on the Right to Development 88

2.3.1.5 International cooperation and shared responsibility in world conferences 92

2.4 The Content of International Cooperation 98

2.4.1 The position of Northern states 98

2.4.2 'Maximum available resources' 101

2.4.3 The structural content of international cooperation 102

2.5 Conclusion 109

3. The Right to Development and Human-centred Globalization 112

3.1 Introduction 112

3.2 The 'Right-holder' of the Right to Development 114

3.3 The Right to Development as a Particular Process of Development 121

3.3.1 The indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights and the conditioning of economic policy 121

3.3.2 Rights-based economic growth 128

3.3.3 Obligations of conduct at the international level 132

3.3.4 Principles of the right to development 143

3.3.4.1 Equality and non-discrimination 143

3.3.4.2 Participation 145

3.3.4.3 Accountability 148

3.4 The Current Incongruence of International Legal Regimes 150

3.5 Conclusion 156

4. A Doctrine of Basic Universal Rights and Supra-positive Obligations 160

4.1 Introduction 160

4.2 Beyond Legal Positivism 161

4.3 The Universal Principle to Respect and Observe Human Rights 165

4.4 What Constitutes Basic Rights Today? 170

4.5 Basic Rights and Community Obligations 174

4.6 Conclusion 178

5. Attributing Global Legal Responsibility 180

5.1 Introduction 180

5.2 The Due Diligence Requirement and the Global Standard of Care 182

5.3 A Typology for World Poverty: International Obligations to Remedy and to Prevent Human Rights Violations 189

5.4 Conclusion 194

6. Concluding Remarks: Latter-day Tyranny and the Future of Human Rights 196

Bibliography 205

Index 233

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