Strategic Violations: The Outsourcing of Human Rights Abuses. Neve Gordon.
by Gordon, Neve; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 59Human Relations. Publisher: Humanist, 2003ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Accountability in government | Contracting out | Corporations -- Corrupt practices | Human rights | Prisons -- Privatization | Private military companies | Privatization | Social responsibility of business | TortureDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Confronting the outsourcing of social and economic violations requires a major reassessment of how human rights organizations should be constituted." (HUMANIST) The author discusses how "outsourcing has often been put to use to abdicate social and moral responsibility," noting how governments and transnational corporations use subcontractors which "make it extremely difficult to hold the violator legally accountable for the abuses it sanctions."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
Originally Published: Strategic Violations: The Outsourcing of Human Rights Abuses, Sept./Oct. 2003; pp. 10-14.
"Confronting the outsourcing of social and economic violations requires a major reassessment of how human rights organizations should be constituted." (HUMANIST) The author discusses how "outsourcing has often been put to use to abdicate social and moral responsibility," noting how governments and transnational corporations use subcontractors which "make it extremely difficult to hold the violator legally accountable for the abuses it sanctions."
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