Philip Alston, Bassam Khawaja, Rebecca Riddell, Jackson Gandour

Privatizing Human Rights

Destroying the Social Contract and Empowering Corporate Actors

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Produktbeschreibung

Outlines the urgent response needed to address privatization, which has led to dramatic but largely overlooked consequences for human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781509982585
• ISBN-10: 1509982582
• Artikelnr.: 72652722

Autorenporträt

Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, USA, and a former UN Special Rapporteur on both extreme poverty and human rights, and on extrajudicial executions. Bassam Khawaja is Deputy Director in the Middle East and North Africa Division at Human Rights Watch, Counsel to the Human Rights and Privatization Project at NYU School of Law, and Senior Fellow in the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School, USA. Rebecca Riddell is Economic Justice Policy Lead, Oxfam America, USA. Jackson Gandour is Adjunct Professor of Law and Research Scholar, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU School of Law, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Drivers of Privatization
3. The Hype versus the Reality
4. The Costs to Society
5. Case Study: Bus Services in the United Kingdom
6. Case Study: Healthcare in Kenya
7. Privatization and Human Rights Law
8. Towards a Balanced Approach
9. Conclusion
Annex: Toolkit