TWAIL – “Third World Approaches to International Law” and human rights: some considerations

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https://doi.org/10.5380/rinc.v5i1.54595

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TWAIL, Third World Approaches to International Law, International Law, Third World, Human Rights.

Abstract

TWAIL is both a political and intellectual movement and, therefore, has multiple perspectives. While the first academic conference of TWAIL was held at Harvard Law School in March 1997, Third World perspectives of international law are part of a long tradition of critical internationalism. In this essay we will try to explain the meaning of the movement according to its most important scholars, and the TWAIL concern to the human rights discourse. It can be said that according TWAIL the historical model of human rights cannot respond to the needs of the Third World except if there is a radical rethinking and restructuring of the international order, abandoning the efforts to universalize an essentially European corpus of human rights.

Author Biography

Larissa Ramina, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Associate Professor of International Law and Human Rights Law at Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR (Curitiba, PR, Brazil). PhD Holder in International Law by the Universidade de São Paulo – USP. LL.M. in International and Comparative Business Law by the LGU – London Guildhall University. Post-Doctoral Researcher in International Law, Université de Paris Ouest – Nanterre la Défense (France). Author of several published books and essays mainly in the area of Public International Law and Human Rights Law. E-mail: raminalarissa@gmail.com.

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2018-01-01

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RAMINA, Larissa. TWAIL – “Third World Approaches to International Law” and human rights: some considerations. Revista de Investigações Constitucionais, [S. l.], v. 5, n. 1, p. 261–272, 2018. DOI: 10.5380/rinc.v5i1.54595. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufpr.br/rinc/article/view/54595. Acesso em: 24 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018): January/April - Dossier: "Separation of powers and institutional dialogues"

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