Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights

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.

Spis treści:
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
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