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Daragh murray, human rights obligations of nonstate armed. Essays in international law and relations in honour of louise arbour, edited by fannie lafontaine and francois larocque, to be published by intersentia. Andrew clapham is professor of public international law at the graduate institute, geneva and the director of the geneva academy of international humanitarian law and human rights. The main focus of the book, however, is on the legal obligations of nonstate actors. The responsibilities and obligations of the nonstate. An individual user may print out a pdf of a single chapter of a monograph in oso for personal use. Despite not being an entirely new debate in international law and international relations, the nexus between human rights and nonstate actors has become a highly relevant topic of scholarly research, as witnessed by three works published in 2005 and 2006 p. Human rights activists increasingly address the activity of multinational corporations, the policies of international organizations such as the world bank and the world trade organization, and international crimes committed by entities such as armed opposition groups and terrorists. Clapham andrew, human rights obligations of nonstate actors oxford. Presents an approach to human rights which goes beyond the traditional focus on states and outlines the human rights obligations of nonstate actors.