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Human Security and Global Governance: Putting People First

HUMAN RIGHTS

by Lloyd Axworthy

Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Canada (1996-2000), and Canadian officials adopted the human security concept as an organizing principle for elements of their foreign policy that “included human rights, governance, child soldiers, women in conflict, land mines, peace operations and peacebuilding, and the development of international criminal law.”  (MacFarlane, S. Neil and Khong, Yuen, Human Security and the UN:  A Critical History, 172)  Presently, Lloyd Axworthy serves as Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.  To access this article, please click here.

 

Axworthy, Lloyd, "Human Security and Global Governance:  Putting People First," Global Governance, Vol. 7 (2001)



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