Bibliograph

Law, infrastructure, and human rights, Michael B. Likosky

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Law, infrastructure, and human rights, Michael B. Likosky

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Law, infrastructure, and human rights

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

181654338

Responsibility statement

Michael B. Likosky

Series statement

Law in contextCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Transnational public-private partnerships -- Human rights risks -- Iraq -- Antiterrorism -- Banks -- EU enlargement -- Antipoverty -- Toward a human rights unit

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Law, Infrastructure & Human Rights

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