Human Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countri
The relationship between the processes of economic development and international human rights standards has been one of parallel and rarely intersecting tracks of international action. In the last dec
Human rights are intertwined with large processes of globalisation. One of these processes is the rapid world-wide growth of multinational business enterprises. This volume argues that normative and l