The human right to water and sanitation emerged as a rallying cry for protestors and a legal tool to challenge privatization of water services. This work explores how the right to water and sanitation is fulfilled in different contexts, whether neoliberal policies like privatization pose a threat to the right to water, and whether rights fulfillment leads to meaningful social change.
Human rights in a neoliberal world -- Global dynamics: rights promoters and rights resistors -- Private water, public good privatization and state capacity in Chile -- Water for life - implementing the human right to water and sanitation in Bolivia
World Affairs Online
Englisch
Oxford University Press
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