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Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society
Contributor(s): Brysk, Alison (Author)

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 ISBN: 0415944775     ISBN-13: 9780415944779
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $58.89  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2004
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Annotation: What do Swiss bankers, Romanian orphans and Brazilian scientists have in common? All are participants in global struggles over the governance of transnational institutions whose policies affect the ability of millions to secure their fundamental rights.
"Human" "Rights and Private Wrongs "breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider 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.
These issues raise 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. "Human Rights and Private Wrongs" is ambitious in scope, raising issues that have considerable current policy relevance, and exploring the nature of politics in a variety of transnational settings.
Broad, controversial, and accessible, this book will be of interest to everyone concerned with the role of civil society, of global social forces, and of the extension of the boundaries of the field of human rights.

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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Globalization
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- Political Science | Human Rights
Dewey: 323
LCCN: 2004011027
Series: Global Horizons
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.28" W x 8.96" L (0.62 lbs) 152 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too private to consider 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.
 
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