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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.