Law, infrastructure, and human rights

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
I "Defense and attack"......Page 13
II Litigation-based approaches......Page 14
III Non-litigation-based approaches......Page 18
IV Scope of book......Page 23
Part 1 Framework......Page 27
I Introduction......Page 29
II What is a PPP?......Page 30
III Historical PPPs: nineteenth- and early-century railroads......Page 39
A Financing......Page 40
B Construction and operation......Page 43
C Social movements......Page 46
IV Forward to the recent shift toward privatization......Page 48
V Conclusion......Page 54
I Introduction......Page 55
II Human rights risk: the concept......Page 59
III Human rights risk: from public to private......Page 63
A Human rights risk strategies......Page 67
1 Anticorruption legislation......Page 68
2 Intergovernmental codes......Page 69
3 Political risk insurance......Page 70
B Mitigating human rights risks in specific projects......Page 72
1 The public model: The Narmada Dam in India......Page 73
2 The PPP model: TheMalaysian North-South Expressway......Page 74
3 Amixed project: The Puebla-Panama Plan in Mexico......Page 75
V Conclusion......Page 77
Part 2 Case studies......Page 79
I Introduction......Page 81
II The state of play and the plan......Page 82
III Insurgency and counterinsurgency......Page 91
IV Looking to the future......Page 99
I Introduction......Page 101
II Infrastructure as battlefield......Page 102
A U.S. institutional response......Page 108
B Information sharing......Page 111
C Cyberterrorism......Page 114
D Insurance......Page 117
E Islamic project finance......Page 120
IV Who owns the battlefield?......Page 122
I Introduction......Page 124
II The first stage......Page 126
III The second stage......Page 128
A Citigroup......Page 130
B Public banks......Page 136
IV An evaluation......Page 142
I Introduction......Page 145
A Legislative history......Page 148
B Integration and national development......Page 152
III PPPs and human rights......Page 153
IV TEN-Ts, PPPs, and human rights......Page 157
V Conclusion......Page 162
I Introduction......Page 164
II Should the poor foot the bill?......Page 166
III The initiatives......Page 169
A "Cities Without Slums" action plan......Page 170
B USAID's Urban Strategy......Page 176
IV Companies and PPPs for the urban poor......Page 177
V Conclusion......Page 180
9 Toward a human rights unit......Page 182
Cases and statutes......Page 193
Bibliography......Page 195
Name Index......Page 227
Subject Index......Page 233