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Privatizing Human Rights: Destroying the Social Contract and Empowering Corporate Actors

Privatizing Human Rights: Destroying the Social Contract and Empowering Corporate Actors

Alston, Philip
Khawaja, Bassam
Riddell, Rebecca

Paperback

General LawSocial Movements

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 13, 2028

ISBN10: 1509982574
ISBN13: 9781509982578
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: Apr 13 2028
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 devastated by the very tax cuts insistently pushed by these groups.

Building on the latest evidence and on specially commissioned case studies, this book shows how the touted 'efficiency' of the private sector is often predicated on higher charges and/or reduced services, destructive employment practices, and the highly predictable exclusion of many users. Privatization generally costs states more money, marginalizes democratic decision-making, and transforms citizens from rights-holders into customers while sidelining accountability.

The authors develop an approach designed to enable human rights actors to move beyond their longstanding agnosticism towards privatization. It starts with a presumption that privatization is inherently retrogressive in human rights terms. Whatever mix of public and private is reflected in any given arrangement, governments must retain the degree of control necessary to ensure respect for rights, and the legal, financial and administrative ability to do so. The book charts a new direction for responding to the ever-growing threat that privatization poses to human rights.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

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