Human Rights and Global Responsibility: an international agenda for the UK. This report addresses in detail three human rights issues where UK Government policy could be strengthened, and sets out new policy recommendations in each: · Human rights and the international business agenda, including company policies on corporate social responsibility. · Human rights and multilateral organisations, with a particular focus on the role of the United Nations. · Human rights and military intervention, including an assessment of recent interventions in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq, and proposed new principles to guide future interventions. By David Mepham and Jane Cooper.

By Institute for Public Policy Research , UK.

Defense Policy Resource.

A Vigilant Parliament: Building Competence for Effective Parliamentary Oversight. The authors conclude it is high time that MPs pick up the challenge and push the envelope by insisting on real autonomy to review defence and foreign policy. The study examines post-Cold-War parliamentary deliberations on Canada's involvement in the Gulf War, Yugoslavia, the Zaire mission, and the Kosovo crisis and war to illustrate Parliament's weak oversight capabilities. By Douglas L. Bland and Roy Rempel.

By Institute for Research on Public Policy , Canada.

Defense Policy Resource.