Constitutionally Silencing Human Rights (2024)

Making Globalization Happen: The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege

Vijayashri Sripati

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2024

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9780198903185

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9780198903154

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Sripati, Vijayashri, 'Constitutionally Silencing Human Rights', Making Globalization Happen: The Untold Story of Power, Profits, Privilege (Oxford, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198903154.003.0010, accessed 16 June 2024.

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This final chapter argues and demonstrates that silencing human rights is the broader story of constitutionally-driven economic globalization. It arrives at this implication by reviewing the constitutionally-based UN sibling agendas: Women, Peace, and Security (WPS); human security and ending ‘conflict-related sexual violence’; protection of civilians; global war on terrorism; and transitional justice. For example, the WPS agenda (including the global right to health) was crafted to globalize privatization and benefit transnational capitalists. The chapter connects ‘global public health’ (since 1999) with ‘international public health’ (1900s to 1999), and ‘colonial constitutional medicine and health’ (the 1800s to 1900s) based on their constitutional underpinnings and thereby suggests why these eras have seen economic and geopolitical ends trumping women’s concerns. The chapter provides a constitutional backdrop to and contextualizes the findings of medical historian, Alison Bashford, Global Health (Columbia University Press, 2014), and the contributions of distinguished Third World anticolonial demographer, Sripati Chandrasekhar. It emphasizes the limitations of analysing relevant international developments from monodisciplinary perspectives (e.g., feminist/public international law (PIL), PIL/International Political Economy (IPE), and IPE/International Human Rights (IHR)) that exclude the Constitution. It reviews and corrects the incomplete or incorrect comments made on the UN Security Council’s role or economic globalization by Christine Chinkin, Laura Shepherd, Cynthia Enloe, and J. K. Gibson-Graham (feminism/Global Studies); A. Claire Cutler and Eunice Sahle (IPE); Audrey Chapman (Global Health and IHR); and Paul Hawken (environmental law). Thus, it demonstrates the advantages of developing Constitutional curiosity. Finally, the foundation-laying for Global Studies/international constitutional law/constitutional political economy is completed.

Keywords: constitutional globalization, privatization, and right to global health–linkages, the Constitution’s importance, UN Security Council and Women, Peace, and Security and militarism–linkages, the League of Nations and population control, the UN, privatization, and right to global health, women’s reproductive freedoms- history, democratization of birth control, colonial health, international health, and global health—constitutional continuities, demography—colonial origins, colonial notions (global colour-line and strengthening sovereignty), Sripati Chandrasekhar

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International Economics Economic Systems

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Making Globalization Happen. Vijayashri Sripati, Oxford University Press. © Vijayashri Sripati 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198903154.003.0010

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