| SES # | TOPICS | RELATED RESOURCES |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Contesting Development: The Movement in the Narmada Valley - A Case Study | Read: Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "The Supreme Court and Human Rights." The Hindu. Op-Ed, December 6, 2000 online. Go to Archives and look up the Opinion page of the issue dated December 6. Arundhati Roy's Article: The Greater Common Good. |
| 20 | The World Commission on Dams and the Struggle over Development | Read: Report of The World Commission on Dams released in November 2000, especially chapters 1-4, 6-8. Read: "A Watershed in Global Governance? An Independent Assessment of the World Commission on Dams." World Resources Institute, 2001, chapters 1-2, 7-9. World Bank Group: Water Resources Management. Read: Official World Bank Position on the Report of the World Commission on Dams. |
| 21 | Setting Global Environmental and Health Policy: The Case of Nuclear Weapons | Read: Legality Of The Threat Or Use Of Nuclear Weapons. Advisory Opinion of 8 July 1996, International Court of Justice. Go to Decisions, then look at Advisory Opinions. In particular, look at the majority judgment and the dissent by Justice Weeramantry. |
| 23 | Global Economic Institutions and Resistance from the Margins: The World Bank and the IMF | The World Bank. Read: World Bank Complaints Panel Report on The Qinghai Project (China: Western Poverty Reduction Project), April 28, 2000 (executive summary). Select the link for Policies from the "What we do" menu of links; then scroll down and click on the link for the Inspection Panel located in a More Information box; when the Inspection Panel's web site is launched, you will see a link for Panel Report on the China: Western Poverty Reduction Project. |
| 24 | The World Trade Organization and the Meaning of Seattle | World Trade Organization. Read: United States - Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products, WT/DS58/R, 15 May 1998, Report of the WTO panel, pp. 1-133, 278-301. Go to Documents and then WTO Dispute panel and appellate body reports, then download pdf version of Part I. |
| 25 | Human Rights and Global Public Policy: Corporate Responsibility Speaker Terry Collingsworth, Director, International Labor Rights Fund | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Documents. Read: E/CN.4/Sub.2/2001/10, Globalization and its impact on the full enjoyment of human rights - Progress report submitted by J. Oloka-Onyango and Deepika Udagama; E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/13, Globalization and its full impact on the full enjoyment of human rights, UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Table of Contents: Business and Human Rights in a Time of Change. Read: Avery, Christopher. Business and Human Rights in a Time of Change. Amnesty International UK, 2000. The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations Summary and Recommendations. Check also the "Links" page of the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice for further research. |