Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights

Download or read book Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights written by Michael B. Likosky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.