Such is the case when many nations are kept within a "national" jurisdiction imposed by foreign organizations.
Within the imposed jurisdiction, minority nations are kept in perpetual slavery through enforced economic regimes.
As a 5th World Nation undergoes the process of "liberation", oftentimes it practices dependance on the "World market", especially the organizations dominated by the Plutocrats. If a nation can commit to a sustainable and clean practice of economic activity which retains sovereignty for the nation, free from dictate by Plutocrats, then the 5th World Nation is really free to dictate it's future.
* Indigenous Nations and the process of fascism within the jurisdiction of the Republic of Honduras (2010-04) [link]
An example of the 5th World alienation and threat from the global market dictatorship can be found in the following descriptions of Human Rights classes, which provide remarkable insight into the absolute criminal activities by foreign economic entities concerning pre-existing 5th World nations...
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) [http://www.hrea.org/index.php?language_id=1]
Business and Human Rights (Course E152), Instructor: Mihir Kanade (6 November-17 December 2013):
This certificate course offered jointly by HREA and the Human Rights Centre of the UN-mandated University for Peace [www.hrc.upeace.org] introduces participants to the major themes and debates concerning the linkages between business and human rights. Since their corporate emergence, much before the nation-state was born, businesses have had a serious impact on human rights, more adverse than beneficial. Globalisation and the proliferation of multinational corporations has only exacerbated the situation whereby global leaders and human rights advocates are now scrambling to search for the appropriate paradigm within which businesses would not only stop having an adverse impact on human rights, but would, in fact, promote them. This e-learning course will critically examine this business-human rights nexus with a particular focus on case studies from around the world. Several questions such as the human rights obligations of businesses, the manner in which human rights are affected by businesses including during armed conflicts, the specific linkages with the right to environment and labour rights and the ever elusive solution for accountability will be examined. We will also look at the idea of corporate social responsibility within the right to development debate. In the final part, the contemporary and emerging frameworks for ensuring respect and promotion of human rights by businesses will be scrutinised from a critical lens.
Course outline -
Week 1: Searching for human rights obligations of businesses as non-state actors
Week 2: The unholy alliance: business and armed conflicts
Week 3: Business and the right to environment; business and labour rights
Week 4: The development nexus: business, corporate social responsibility and human rights
Week 5: The justiciability question: business, human rights and accountability
Week 6: What next: The contemporary and evolving business-human rights frameworks (The John Ruggie Framework, its criticisms and its implementation)
About the instructor -
Mihir Kanade is the Director of the Human Rights Center at the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) and is an Academic Consultant to the Department of International Law and Human Rights at UPEACE. Prior to the present position, Mr. Kanade practiced for seven years as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and the Bombay High Court, focusing on issues of fundamental human rights violations. He holds a LL.B. from Nagpur University and a Masters degree in International Law and the Settlement of Disputes from UPEACE. He has served extensively as a legal advisor to many human rights organizations, including those involved with refugee protection, and has represented them before different courts and tribunals in criminal, constitutional, asylum, human rights and labour cases. His current primary area of academic research and study is Human Rights, Development and International Trade linkages. He is a consultant to the United Nations University, Tokyo, on a project titled 'WTO Agreements, United Nations and Human Security'.
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Indigenous Peoples' Rights (Course E069):
This certificate course jointly organised by HREA and the Human Rights Centre of the UN-mandated University for Peace [www.hrc.upeace.org] introduces participants to the increasingly significant field of indigenous peoples' rights and looks at the contemporary issues that have paradoxically led to a recognition of those rights on the one hand, while simultaneously challenging their implementation on the other. The course will address the broad spectrum of issues involved in the field of indigenous peoples' rights, beginning with who qualifies to be "indigenous peoples", the scope of their right to self-determination, the international and regional legal frameworks for the protection of their rights and the challenges associated therewith, and the debates surrounding the concept of indigenous governance. The course will also look closely into human security and human development issues relating to indigenous peoples, the role of extraction and other business corporations in indigenous reservations/areas, and the effect of intellectual property rights on the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples. Strong emphasis will be placed throughout the course not only on theory and law, but also on case studies from around the world. Participants will explore debates on mainstreaming versus autonomy, participatory governance, scope of 'free and prior consent' and the human right to development, amongst others.
Course outline -
Week 1: Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Identity and the Right to Self-determination
Week 2: International and Regional Legal Framework for Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Week 3: Indigenous Governance
Week 4: Indigenous Peoples, Human Security and Human Development
Week 5: Indigenous Peoples Rights and Business Corporations
Week 6: Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples
About the instructor -
Mihir Kanade (India) is the Director of the UPEACE Human Rights Centre and is also a faculty member in the Department of International Law and Human Rights at UPEACE. Prior to his pursuit in academia, Mihir practiced for several years as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and the Bombay High Court, focusing on issues of fundamental human rights violations. He has served as a legal advisor to many human rights organizations in India and has represented them before different courts and tribunals in criminal, constitutional and labour cases. His principal area of academic research and study is Human Rights and Globalization, including indigenous peoples' rights. He teaches courses on 'Indigenous Peoples' Rights' at UPEACE. He also leads a yearly field course for practitioners and experts on the topic in Costa Rica.
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International Human Rights Law (Foundation Course) (Course E061): This certificate course jointly offered by HREA and the Human Rights Centre of the UN-mandated University for Peace [www.hrc.upeace.org] introduces participants to the basics of international human rights law. The course is intended to not only build the foundations of the participants in international human rights law, but also as a foundation course for other HREA e-learning courses and to serve as a stepping stone for developing expertise in specialised areas of human rights law and practice.
The course adopts a holistic approach to learning international human rights law, beginning from its normative foundations and emergence as a distinct field of international law to its contemporary status and challenges for the future. Given the introductory nature of this course, emphasis is placed throughout on idealism as well as realism, including an understanding of how international and domestic politics have influenced and continue to influence the field of international human rights law. On the normative side, participants will analyse the merits and demerits of categorising human rights under different labels and its effects on human rights promotion. They will look at case studies from around the world that expose the tensions between cultural relativism and universality of human rights, and will also look at the concepts of collective rights and rights of vulnerable persons. On the practical side, participants will be introduced to the most important mechanisms as well as challenges to the realization and promotion of human rights, including State compliance and judicial enforcement. Finally, the inter-play between nation-states and civil society will be scrutinised with a strong focus on NGO activism and the emerging challenges thereto.
Course outline -
Week 1: History and Normative Foundations of Human Rights and the Emergence of International Human Rights Law
Week 2: The Politics of Human Rights and Beyond (Debates on Generations of Human Rights and Universality)
Week 3: They are Humans Too? (Human Rights of Vulnerable Groups)
Week 4: Collective Identity and Collective Human Rights
Week 5: Compliance and Enforcement of Human Rights
Week 6: Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy
About the instructors -
* Frank Elbers is Executive Director of Human Rights Education Associates (HREA). He has twenty years of experience in development and human rights in postcommunist Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. At HREA he has been an instructor and trainer for courses and workshops on human rights-based programming, monitoring children's rights and monitoring women's human rights. Before joining HREA in 1998 he worked at the Anne Frank House and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee. Mr. Elbers studied political science at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently the co-instructor of the HREA e-learning courses Gender and Human Rights (Foundation Course) and Gender Mainstreaming.
* Mihir Kanade is the Director of the Human Rights Center at the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) and is an Academic Consultant to the Department of International Law and Human Rights at UPEACE. Prior to the present position, Mr. Kanade practiced for seven years as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and the Bombay High Court, focusing on issues of fundamental human rights violations. He holds a LL.B. from Nagpur University and a Masters degree in International Law and the Settlement of Disputes from UPEACE. He has served extensively as a legal advisor to many human rights organizations, including those involved with refugee protection, and has represented them before different courts and tribunals in criminal, constitutional, asylum, human rights and labour cases. His current primary area of academic research and study is Human Rights, Development and International Trade linkages. He is a consultant to the United Nations University, Tokyo, on a project titled 'WTO Agreements, United Nations and Human Security'. Mr. Kanade is the instructor for the HREA-UPEACE Human Rights Centre e-learning courses Business and Human Rights, Development and Human Rights: Implications for the Globalised World, Health and Human Rights, International Refugee Law and Contemporary Challenges and International Trade and Human Rights: Balancing the Act.
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