Salil Shetty

Foreword

Fernando Basch, Leonardo Filippini, Ana Laya, Mariano Nino, Felicitas Rossi and Bárbara Schreiber

The Effectiveness of the Inter-American System of Human Rights Protection: A Quantitative Approach to its Functioning and Compliance With its Decisions

Richard Bourne

The Commonwealth of Nations: Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental Strategies for the Protection of Human Rights in a Post-colonial Association

Amnesty International

Combating Exclusion: Why Human Rights Are Essential for the MDGs

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

Reflections on the Role of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals

Alicia Ely Yamin

Toward Transformative Accountability: Applying a Rights-based Approach to Fulfill Maternal Health Obligations

Sarah Zaidi

Millennium Development Goal 6 and the Right to Health: Conflictual or Complementary?

Marcos A. Orellana

Climate Change and the Millennium Development Goals: The Right to Development, International Cooperation and the Clean Development Mechanism

CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY

Lindiwe Knutson

Aliens, Apartheid and US Courts: Is the Right of Apartheid Victims to Claim Reparations from Multinational Corporations at last Recognized?

David Bilchitz

The Ruggie Framework: An Adequate Rubric for Corporate Human Rights Obligations?