Alfred de Zayas:
BUILDING A JUST WORLD ORDER
(with a chapter on Catalonia's right to self-determination)
«In 2011, the UN Human Rights Council created the mandate of the Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order. This book represents the findings of Dr. Alfred de Zayas, the first mandate-holder (2012-2018).
Zayas proposes concrete reforms of the UN system, notably the Security Council, and advocates recognition of peace as a human right, self-determination as a conflict-prevention measure, slashing military expenditures, reversing the adverse impacts of World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies, rendering free-trade agreements compatible with human rights, abolishing tax havens and ISDS, alleviating the foreign debt crisis, criminalizing war-profiteers and pandemic vultures. Zayas denounces unilateral coercive measures, economic sanctions and financial blockades, because they demonstrably have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.
“Alfred de Zayas is a gifted human rights lawyer who, alongside Jakob Moller, pioneered the development of UN human rights jurisprudence. He was a dynamic Special Rapporteur, as is evidenced by his Principles for a Democratic and Equitable International Order.” BERTRAND RAMCHARAN, Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 2002-2004.
“The 25 Zayas Principles of International Order are a modern Magna Carta. ” MARIA FERNANDA ESPINOSA, President of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, 2018-2019.
“Zayas proposes a new functional paradigm of human rights for all.” PROFESSOR DR. CARLOS CORREA, University of Buenos Aires, Executive Director of South Centre.
“This book goes to the sources of law and justice and proposes pragmatic solutions to many problems, including those of Indigenous Peoples.” SHARON H. VENNE, Notokwew Muskwa Manitokan, Expert in International Law and Indigenous Peoples.
“This lucid, hands-on, independent, pragmatic study is a mode d’emploi for achieving a rules-based international order under the UN Charter.” PROFESSOR CARLOS VILLÁN DURAN, President of the Spanish Society for International Human Rights Law.»
Source: https://www.claritypress.com/product/building-a-just-world-order/
This book is published at the beginning of August 2021: ISBN 978-1-949262-42-6 (Clarity Press, 2021).