Message from Louise Arbour: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Arbour, Louise

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“…While there has been an increase in the documentation of human rights violations against sexual minorities by both international human rights organizations and sexual minority advocacy groups, leading to an increase in its usage at the refugee hearing, there continues to be an absence of country conditions from regions where a significant number of sexual minority refugee claims are being made (LaViolette 2009a). Due to underreporting and lack of documentation, limitations were identified in gathering evidence of violence against LGBT individuals (LaViolette 2009a:447, citing Arbour 2006). This led to refugee tribunals using inappropriate sources as substitutes.…”

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Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada

Lee¹,

Brotman²

2011

Canadian Review of Sociology

156

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This article explores the results of a qualitative community-based research project on the intersectional experiences of sexual minority refugees living in Canada. Undertaken between 2008 and 2010, this study examines sexual minority refugees' multifaceted experiences of migration, the refugee determination process, and settlement. Through an analysis of the interrelated themes of identity, refugeeness, and belonging, we hope to further investigate the ways in which Canadian refugee policies, social institutions, and dominant discourses contribute to the sociopolitical construction of sexual minority refugees. We conclude with an exploration of strategies for increasing protection of sexual minority refugees in Canada.

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Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada

Lee¹,

Brotman²

2011

Canadian Review of Sociology

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“…Liberal approaches, such as human rights, have been criticized by Mouffe (2005) as depoliticized and non-adversarial, rejecting the political and antagonistic dimensions that seem imminent to land appropriation as competition over scarce resources. Arbour (2008) argues that human rights analysis must identify ''obstacles'' and clarify 'the power imbalances in a society that trigger or exacerbate' insecure access to human rights. Borras and Franco (2010) critique codes of conduct on land appropriation, and similar regulative measures, which in their view tend to condone transnational land appropriation so long as it is subjected to the certain procedures and constraints.…”

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Human Rights Against Land Grabbing? A Reflection on Norms, Policies, and Power

Wisborg

2013

J Agric Environ Ethics

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Large-scale transnational land acquisition of agricultural land in the global south by rich corporations or countries raises challenging normative questions. In this article, the author critically examines and advocates a human rights approach to these questions. Mutually reinforcing, policies, governance and practice promote equitable and secure land tenure that in turn, strengthens other human rights, such as to employment, livelihood and food. Human rights therefore provide standards for evaluating processes and outcomes of transnational land acquisitions and, thus, for determining whether they are ethically unacceptable land grabs. A variety of recent policy initiatives on the issue have evoked human rights, most centrally through the consultation and negotiation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests concluded in 2012. However, a case of transnational land appropriation illustrates weak host and investor state enforcement of human rights, leaving the parties to in interaction with local groups in charge of protecting human rights. Generally, we have so far seen limited direct application of human rights by states in their governance of transnational land acquisition. Normative responses to transnational land acquisitioncodes of conduct, principles of responsible agricultural investment or voluntary guidelines-do not in themselves secure necessary action and change. Applying human rights approaches one must therefore also analyze the material conditions, power relations and political processes that determine whether and how women and men can secure the human rights accountability of the corporations and governments that promote large-scale, transnational land acquisition in the global south.

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“… 2 “A rights‐based approach to development is a conceptual framework for the process of human development … normatively based on international human rights standards and operationally directed to promoting and protecting human rights” (UN Development Programme and UN Population Fund 2007:4; compare Arbour 2008). Former UN Secretary‐General Kofi Annan (2004) called on all UN agencies to adopt such an approach, one that current UN Secretary‐General Ban Ki‐moon continues to implement, based on a 2003 interagency statement of common understanding of the rights‐based approach (UNICEF 2004).…”

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Do Victims of War Need International Law? Human Rights Education Programs in Authoritarian Sudan

Massoud

2011

Law Soc Rev

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Sudan, this article illuminates the consequences of human rights educational workshops as a form of humanitarian assistance in war-ravaged areas. These projects are built on flawed assumptions about Sudanese politics and about the likelihood that human rights education empowers the war-ravaged poor. The beneficial impacts of human rights discourse stem from its side effects, which fulfill urgent and symbolic needs, and not from the core content of human rights. The case of an authoritarian regime exposes an alternative site of rights promotion, outside the established or struggling democracies where most literature on rights resides. Bridging the literature on rights in Western, democratic contexts and on human rights in Africa, this article argues that law is not enoughFand is potentially dangerousFin the insecure and impoverished areas where the international aid community has been encouraging it to flourish. , and the editors and reviewers for helpful comments. This research would not have been possible without the kindness of many respondents in Sudan. Please direct all correspondence to Mark Fathi Massoud,

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Message from Louise Arbour: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada

Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada

Human Rights Against Land Grabbing? A Reflection on Norms, Policies, and Power

Do Victims of War Need International Law? Human Rights Education Programs in Authoritarian Sudan

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