Human rights and private wrongs : constructing global civil society / Alison Brysk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brysk, Alison, 1960-

Series:

Global horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Globalization.

International agencies.

Civil society.

Physical Description:

xii, 152 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

In this ground-breaking volume, Alison Brysk examines a series of fascinating issues that normally fall between the cracks of the international human rights regime because they are considered too "private" to qualify as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial matters of investor and business responsibility; and complex questions involving access to the benefits of pharmaceutical research, transnational organ trafficking, and the control over genetic research.

In actuality, these issues bear considerable relevance to current policy, raising extremely sensitive and increasingly significant questions about both rights and the division of responsibility between state and society for the construction of norms of regulation. Through its sweeping treatment of these topics, Human Rights and Private Wrongs explores the nature of politics in a variety of transnational settings.

Broad, controversial, and accessible, Human Rights and Private Wrongs is a book that cannot be ignored by anyone concerned with the role of civil society, of global social forces, or of the extension of the boundaries of the field of human rights.

Contents:

Introduction : globalization and private wrongs

Norm change in global civil society

New subjects : children across borders

New strategies : "follow the money"

New rights : "our bodies, ourselves"

Conclusion : private authority and global governance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-148) and index.

ISBN:

0415944767

0415944775

OCLC:

55146544