Human Rights or Global Capitalism : : The Limits of Privatization / / Manfred Nowak.

The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights. But the window of opportunity for creating this more just, more equal, and more secure world slammed shut j...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Historical Observations
  • Chapter 1. History of Human Rights-A Dialectic View
  • Chapter 2. Did the West Comply with the Vienna Compromise?
  • Part II. Privatization and Selected Human Rights
  • Chapter 3. Right to Education
  • Chapter 4. Right to Health
  • Chapter 5. Right to Social Security
  • Chapter 6. Right to Water
  • Chapter 7. Right to Personal Liberty and Rights of Detainees
  • Chapter 8. Right to Personal Security
  • Conclusion: A Human Rights Based Approach to Privatization
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments