A Right to Solidarity. World Ordering from the Margins through International Law

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6146972
AutoresJohannes Haaf (0000-0002-5562-5652, Dresden University of Technology ,), Felix Anderl (0000-0002-3536-8898, Philipps University of Marburg)
Año2024
Volumen4
Número3
Fecha de publicación2024-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2634-3797 • E-ISSN: 2634-3797
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/isagsq/ksae070
OpenAlexW4403479268
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas38

In 2005, the United Nations (UN) created the Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity. The mandate holder works toward the establishment and promotion of the human right to solidarity. Usually, a right is regarded as something that people demand, and solidarity is something that people give regardless of legal obligations. Codifying solidarity in international law therefore seems paradoxical. Yet, as we show in this article, the initiative, driven by the G77, stands in a long tradition of attempts to transform the international order into a more just and equitable structure. We highlight its function as a possible means of world ordering from the margins. Through the voting power of a coalition of discontents—against the consistent resistance of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries—in the General Assembly/the Human Rights Council, the mandate holder can use their marginal position in the UN bureaucracy to update discourses about a just international order by altering legal discourses in pursuit of the right to solidarity

International law · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law