Law and Globalization From Below 2005
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511494093.005
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Campaigning for life: building a new transnational solidarity in the face of HIV/AIDS and TRIPS

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“…Sometimes, social movements, transnational NGOs, global pressure, and local governments converge in supporting novel rights claims challenging an injurious status quo. Rights campaigns proved transformative in Heinz Klug's study of struggles over antiretroviral medicines to combat HIV/AIDS in South Africa (), and in Cesar Rodriguez‐Garavito's () study of campaigns for workers' rights against Nike apparel sweatshops in Mexico. Likewise, as my colleague Rachel Cichowski () and others have demonstrated, the development of transnational judicial institutions has catalyzed a vibrant civic culture of rights activism at local, national, and transnational levels throughout the European Union.…”
Section: Rights Globalism and The Current Law And Society Associationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sometimes, social movements, transnational NGOs, global pressure, and local governments converge in supporting novel rights claims challenging an injurious status quo. Rights campaigns proved transformative in Heinz Klug's study of struggles over antiretroviral medicines to combat HIV/AIDS in South Africa (), and in Cesar Rodriguez‐Garavito's () study of campaigns for workers' rights against Nike apparel sweatshops in Mexico. Likewise, as my colleague Rachel Cichowski () and others have demonstrated, the development of transnational judicial institutions has catalyzed a vibrant civic culture of rights activism at local, national, and transnational levels throughout the European Union.…”
Section: Rights Globalism and The Current Law And Society Associationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Em risco de se ver excluído do CAFTA, o Estado guatemalteco, por sua vez, exerceu pressão sobre a marca de vestuário (Liz Claiborne) e respectivo fornecedor no sentido de respeitar o código de conduta daquela, facto que acabaria por permitir a sindicalização dos operários da fábrica. No segundo caso, analisado por Heinz Klug (2005), o Estado sul-africano, pressionado por um forte movimento social que exigia medicamentos anti-retrovirais gratuitos ou baratos para doentes com HIV/sida, conseguiu que, graças à sua própria pressão, as companhias farmacêuticas retirassem a queixa feita nos tribunais relativamente ao licenciamento obrigatório e à produção de genéricos e baixassem os preços dos seus produtos de marca.…”
Section: Lutas Sociais No Quadro Da Governaçãounclassified
“…Beginning in the late 1990s with the South African Treatment Action Campaign, the alliance between international and domestic HIV activists against the international intellectual property (IP) rights regime showed that transnational solidarity was possible (Klug 2005;Nauta 2011). Strict IP provisions included in the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement threatened access to antiretroviral therapies for HIV patients in developing countries.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%