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

by Philip Alston, Rebecca Riddell, Bassam Khawaja

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509982574
• ISBN13: 9781509982578
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"