Privatizing Human Rights
Destroying the Social Contract and Empowering Corporate Actors
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2026
Summary
Governments around the world are privatizing everything, with dramatic but largely ignored negative consequences for human rights. This open access book outlines the response that is urgently needed.
Corporations are being given control over water, healthcare, housing, public transportation, child welfare services, aged care, and much else. Privatization is promoted by international financial institutions, consulting firms, and development actors as the answer to public finances devas…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509982578 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509982574 |
| Author: | Philip Alston, Bassam Khawaja, Rebecca Riddell, Jackson Gandour |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Hart Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 138mm x 216mm |
Philip Alston
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 Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law, Smith Family Human Rights Clinic, 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.
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