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Civil Society Representative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Lauren C. Baillie
Lauren C. Baillie*
Affiliation:
Public International Law & Policy Group.
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In our increasingly globalized world, civilians feel most acutely the impact of conflicts and failures of interstate regulation. Modern conflict has been characterized by states and nonstate actors targeting civilians. One need only look to the offenses committed in Syria and South Sudan to understand the immense toll those conflicts have taken on civilian lives. In addition, failures in interstate regulation, particularly around business practices and climate change, disproportionately affect the world's most poor and vulnerable, as political and economic interests take precedence over the rights of civilians.

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San Francisco 2.0: Constructing a Global Governance Architecture for the 21st Century
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 113 , 2019 , pp. 103 - 105
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Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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References

1 Avaaz.org, et al., Strengthening Civil Society Engagement with the UN: Perspectives from Across Civil Society Highlighting Areas for Action by the UN Secretary-General, at 8, available at https://www.una.org.uk/file/11621/download?token=agw75Vy5.

2 See generally International Service for Human Rights, The Backlash Against Civil Society Access and Participation at the UN (2018), available at https://www.ishr.ch/sites/default/files/documents/mappingreport_web_0.pdf.

3 Melissa Kent, Politicized UN Committee Using “Repeated and Arbitrary Deferrals” to Block NGOs, Critics Say, CBC News (Jan. 21, 2018), at https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-ngo-committee-politics-1.4494291.