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The State's Duty to Foster Voter Competence
Michele Giavazzi, Zsolt Kapelner
Journal:

Episteme / Volume 21 / Issue 3 / September 2024

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26 September 2022, pp. 719-732
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In this paper we discuss an often-neglected topic in the literature on the ethics of voting. Our aim is to provide an account of what states are obligated to do, so that voters may fulfil their role as public decision-makers in an epistemically competent manner. We argue that the state ought to provide voters with what we call a substantive opportunity for competence. This entails that the state ought to actively foster the epistemic capabilities that are necessary to achieve competent participation in political decision-making practices.

Responses to the Uyghur Crisis and the Implications for Business and Human Rights Legislation
Rosa POLASCHEK
Journal:

Business and Human Rights Journal / Volume 6 / Issue 3 / October 2021

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14 October 2021, pp. 567-575
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As has now been well publicized, there is serious and credible evidence that Uyghur and other minority communities in China are being forced into internment or ‘re-education’ camps,1 with strong links to subsequent forced labour in factories, particularly centred in Xinjiang province.2 The use of forced labour (intimately connected to many international supply chains) as a hallmark feature of the Chinese state’s oppression of its Uyghur peoples requires a ‘business and human rights’ (BHR) lens to responses to the human rights violations in the region.

~ B ~ - The Absurdity of Relying on Human Rights Law to Go After Emitters
from Debate 6: Human Rights
- By Fanny Thornton
Edited by Benoit Mayer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Alexander Zahar
Book:

Debating Climate Law

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15 June 2021

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24 June 2021, pp 159-169
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This chapter debates the relevance of human rights law to climate law. No doubt the impacts of climate change hinder the enjoyment of many types of human right. On this ground, Nicola Pain makes the case that climate change can be viewed as a human rights problem, entailing that states must mitigate climate change in order to comply with their positive obligations to protect human rights. Fanny Thornton explores the weaknesses in this position. She counters that viewing climate change through a human-rights lens is misconceived and leads to absurd results, not least because there is no standard by which to assess the adequacy of governmental mitigation action.

~ A ~ - Human Rights Law Can Drive Climate Change Mitigation
from Debate 6: Human Rights
- By Nicola Pain
Edited by Benoit Mayer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Alexander Zahar
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Debating Climate Law

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15 June 2021

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24 June 2021, pp 145-158
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This chapter debates the relevance of human rights law to climate law. No doubt the impacts of climate change hinder the enjoyment of many types of human right. On this ground, Nicola Pain makes the case that climate change can be viewed as a human rights problem, entailing that states must mitigate climate change in order to comply with their positive obligations to protect human rights. Fanny Thornton explores the weaknesses in this position. She counters that viewing climate change through a human-rights lens is misconceived and leads to absurd results, not least because there is no standard by which to assess the adequacy of governmental mitigation action.

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