Human Rights' Anti-Globalization in a Multinational Corporatized State
2017; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1556-5068
Autores Tópico(s)International Law and Human Rights
ResumoIn this Book Chapter, the Author discusses how tension and conflict can sometimes occur when private actors use domestic public resources, such as law enforcement, to promote private beliefs and interests, at the expense of civil and international human rights. An example is the October 7, 2014 preseason basketball game hosted by the New York-based Brooklyn Nets against an Israeli basketball team, Maccabi Tel Aviv, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. This event became a complex, multi-tiered arrangement involving perspectives on international crimes, freedom of speech, public versus private space, and the investment of the State in the private sphere. The Author opines that international protection of human rights will likely encourage greater investment in cities like New York, which may expand its welcome to fundraising for extraterritorial causes by severely restricting public dissent. Greater private investment may occur where there will be greater control over association and speech rights, to the benefit of the State and its choices on reallocation of assets to populations. But in doing so, we step away from a globalizing and expansive view of human rights, except to the extent we intend to expand human rights for the non-natural corporate entity, and restrict those rights to natural persons.
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