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Framing Human Rights and the Production of Translation Legal Consciousness
Keren Wang*Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- *Corresponding Author:
- Keren Wang
Department of Communication Arts& Sciences
Pennsylvania State University, 234 Lewis Katz Building
University Park, PA 16802-5201, USA
Tel: +1 814-865-3461
E-mail: kuw148@psu.edu
Received Date: January 08, 2016; Accepted Date: February 09, 2016; Published Date: February 16, 2016
Citation: Wang K (2016) Framing Human Rights and the Production of Translation Legal Consciousness. J Civil Legal Sci 5:177. doi:10.4172/2169-0170.1000177
Copyright: © 2016 Wang K. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
This paper presents a case study on a complaint document filed by the British NGO “Survival International” against the multinational mining conglomerate Vedanta Resources for alleged human rights violations. By examining the internal and external dynamics of the text of the complaint document, this paper seeks to delineate the strategic framing of rights violations by Survival International within the context of international legal discourse. The document operates beyond the contours of international legal formalism. The complaint document functions as a polycentric legal document, as it seeks to bridge the gap between “hard” and “soft” international legal structures through the invocation of multiple discrete norm systems in a unified fashion. Most importantly, by bringing together civil-political and socioeconomic rights into a singular, indivisible human rights narrative frame, the documents serves as an example of the ways which non-state actors utilize the discursive dynamics of the polycentric global norm structures for disciplining corporate social responsibility.
