A/HRC/24/38 23. Each country has the responsibility to make improvements to its economic, judicial, political and social systems. Civil society should be given every opportunity to contribute to this process. If every country takes a step forward, all populations will benefit and international solidarity will be served. 24. Many observers have exposed the democracy deficits of the international and domestic order; identified threats to international peace; warned against the militaryindustrial complex; and denounced the retrogression in social justice and the crisis of democracy, which some see in the absence of public participation, and the imposition of a kind of lobby-democracy, post-democracy or pseudo-democracy, democratic only in name, because real decisions are taken by corporations and financial institutions that are not elected and not accountable to the people. Among them: Samir Amin,20 Francis Boyle,21 Noam Chomsky,22 Ramsey Clark,23 Marjorie Cohn,24 Giovanni Cornia,25 David Cromwell,26 Colin Crouch,27 Barbara Ehrenreich,28 Diane Elson,29 Glenn Greenwald,30 Stephany Griffith-Jones,31 Chris Harman,32 David Harvey,33 Edward Herman,34 Richard Jolly,35 Naomi Klein,36 Robert McChesney,37 Justin Lewis,38 Jeanne Mirer,39 Ralph Nader,40 Isabel Ortiz,41 Karen Parker,42 Ruth Pearson,43 John Pilger,44 Arundhati Roy,45 Frances Stewart,46 Alejandro Teitelbaum,47 Tzvetan Todorov,48 Roland Weyl,49 Luis Roberto 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 Maldevelopment - Anatomy of a Global Failure, 2nd edition, Oxford, 2011. World Politics and International Law, 2005. Hopes and Prospects, London 2010. From Civil Rights to Human Rights, http://ddce.utexas.edu/news/2012/11/07/nov-12-from-civilrights-to-human-rights-talk-by-ramsey-clark/ See http://www.marjoriecohn.com/. See http://www.wider.unu.edu/aboutus/people/external-project-directors/en_GB/cornia-external/. Why are we the Good Guys? Reclaiming Your Mind from the Delusions of Paranoia. Winchester 2012. Post-Democracy, Cambridge 2004 Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America, 2001, http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/nickelanddimed.htm. “Emerging Issues with a Focus on Economic Decision-Making” in United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ed.) Gender Gaps and Economic Policy, UNECE, Geneva, 2007. With Liberty and Justice for some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Poweful, New York, 2012. Stephanie Griffith-Jones et al. (eds.), Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis, Oxford, 2010. Economics of the Madhouse: Capitalism and the Market Today, London, 1995. A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford, 2005. The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader, 1999. Richard Jolly et al., Be Outraged: There are alternatives, 2012. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, 2007. Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, New York, 2000. Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along With It, New York, 2001. See http://www.iadllaw.org/en/node/390. The Good Fight: Declare your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap, 2004. See http://www.isabelortiz.info/. Association of Humanitarian Lawyers http://www.humanlaw.org/. See http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/about/staff/pearson/. The New Rulers of the World, London 2002. Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy, New Delhi, 2009. Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Conflict in Multiethnic Societies, Basingstoke, United Kingdom, 2008. See http://www.rebelion.org/mostrar.php?tipo=5&id=Alejandro%20Teitelbaum&inicio=0. Les ennemis intimes de la démocratie, Paris 2012. Nous peuples des Nations Unies: Sortir le droit international du placard, CETIM, Geneva, 2008. 9