Subjects:

Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Contents:

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Part I. Framework:
2. Transnational public-private partnerships

3. Human rights risks

Part II. Case Studies:
4. Iraq

5. Anti-terrorism

6. Banks

7. EU enlargement

8. Anti-poverty

9. Towards a human rights unit

Bibliography.

From attacks on oil infrastructure in post-war reconstruction Iraq to the laying of gas pipelines in the Amazon Rainforest through indigenous community villages, infrastructure projects are sites of intense human rights struggles. Many state and non-state actors have proposed solutions for handling human rights problems in the context of specific infrastructure projects. Solutions have been admired for being lofty in principle; however, they have been judged wanting in practice.

This book analyzes how human rights are handled in varied contexts and then assesses the feasibility of a common international institutional solution under the auspices of the United Nations to the alleged problem of the inability to translate human rights into practice.

• Looks at how human rights actually function in practice
• Sustained examination of the workings of legal globalization
• Topical and detailed case studies