Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; Jernej Letnar Cernic sku-31883987

Making Sovereign Financing and Human Rights Work is a hardcover edited collection listed under Civil Rights Law Books with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; Jernej Letnar Cernic. SKU: sku-31883987. It examines how poor public resource management, the global financial crisis and financial assistance to authoritarian regimes raise questions about finance and human rights, including reduced fiscal space and poverty.

The collection develops legal theories and analyses of sovereign debt and human rights, with chapters on financial complicity, UN sanctions, ethics, transitional justice, criminal law, insolvency, millennium development goals, global financial architecture, corporations, extraterritoriality, state of necessity, sovereign wealth and hedge funds, project financing, state responsibility, international financial institutions, the right to development, UN initiatives and litigation.

It includes case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America, followed by an introductory chapter in which the editors theorize the chapters. It discusses the UN Human Rights Council's July 2012 guidelines on foreign debt and human rights and is intended to help readers and practitioners understand the legal and economic issues.

Contributors include lawyers, economists, practitioners and officials from international organizations.