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Human Rights or global capitalism. The limits of privatization

AuthorsManfred Nowak
DetailsHuman Rights or global capitalism. The limits of privatization
2016
ISBN: 9780812248753
256 pages

Human Rights or Global Capitalism is not simply concerned with the success or failure of neoliberal policies per se or judging whether they are good or bad. Rather, it examines the application of those policies from a human rights perspective and asks whether states, by outsourcing to the private sector many services with a direct impact on human rights—education, health, social security, water, personal liberty, personal security, equality—abdicate their responsibilities to uphold human rights and thereby violate international human rights law. Manfred Nowak explores these examples and outlines the ways in which neoliberal policies contravene the obligations of states to protect the human rights of their people. This is the subject of “Human Rights or global capitalism. The limits of privatization”.