Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights

By Michael B. Likosky

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521676886
• ISBN13: 9780521676885
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"