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Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of the difficulties and promise of promoting human rights in our global age.

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Preface; D.M.Nault & S.L.England Introduction; D.M.Nault PART I: GLOBALIZATION, THE STATE, AND HUMAN RIGHTS Globalization and the Commercialization of Humanity: The State, Trafficking in Persons, and Human Rights Challenges in Africa; B.Onuoha Exclusionary Globalization: Sanctions, Military Rule, and Non-democratization in Myanmar; P.Strefford PART II: TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS Transnational Corporations and the Protection of Human Rights: Non-Financial Reporting as an Option; O.Osuji The Duty to Protect against Human Rights Violations Committed Abroad by Transnational Corporations and their Subsidiaries; B.Zammitto PART III: FINANCIAL FLOWS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH Do Official Development Aid and Foreign Direct Investment Promote Good Governance in Africa?; A.Lemi The ´Creditors in Competition´: Chávez and the Bank of the South versus the IMF; R.Paterson PART IV: GENOCIDE IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Role of Globalization in the Causes, Consequences, Prevention, and Punishment of Genocide; M.Hiebert Confronting ´Linguistic Genocide´: Language Repression in Kurdistan; E.Voulgarakis & B.Dawei

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BEI DAWEI Assistant Professor in the Foreign Language Department of Hsuan Chuang University in Hsinchu, Taiwan MAUREEN S. HIEBERT Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law and Society at the University of Calgary, Canada ADUGNA LEMI Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA BROWNE ONUOHA Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria ONYEKA OSUJI Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, UK RAB PATERSON Lecturer at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and a Part-time Lecturer at Dokkyo University´s Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Japan PATRICK STREFFORD Lecturer in International Relations at Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan EVANGELOS VOULGARAKIS Teaches History of English Literature and Greek Mythology at Chih Lee Institute of Technology and Hua Fan University, Taiwan BIAGIO ZAMMITTO Independent Scholar and an Attorney at the Brussels´ Bar, Belgium

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