Mitigating Human Rights Risks Under State-Financed and Privatized Infrastructure Projects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5838657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael B Likosky (Lancaster University, corresponding author), Likosky (corresponding author), Likosky Likosky (Indiana University, corresponding author), Michael Likosky |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 65-85 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1080-0727 • E-ISSN: 1543-0367 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/gls.2003.0018 |
| OpenAlex | W4253068042 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Infrastructure projects undertaken in developing countries and transition societies are presently sites of intense human rights struggles. For instance, public outcry resulting from a well-orchestrated non-governmental campaign led the World Bank to withdraw support for a series of state-sponsored dam projects along the Narmada River in India. The Zapatistas have responded to President Vincente Fox's offer to build a land-based Panama Canal through the Chiapas region by claiming that it would give indigenous peoples no more than "the crumbs left over from capitalist neo-liberal development." Suits have been filed in U.S. courts against Shell and Chevron for their alleged collusion with the Nigerian government in squelching peaceful protests against the laying of oil pipelines in Nigeria. These suits are high-profile instances of what Harold Koh refers to as "transnational public law litigation" and Anne-Marie Slaughter and David Bosco term "plaintiff's diplomacy." Again and again, we see the battles over human rights being fought on the terrain of the state. The recent shift away from state sponsorship of projects and towards market-based approaches, however, threatens to change the nature of our narratives and the possibility of realizing a human rights-based development model. According to conventional accounts, from the 1950s to roughly the 1990s, infrastructure projects in many countries were financed and carried out by
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |