Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "e;private"e; to consider as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial matters of investor and business responsibility; and complex questions involving access to the benefits of pharmaceutical research, transnational organ trafficking, and the control over genetic research.

Alison Brysk is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.

1. Introduction: Globalization and private wrongs 2. Norm Change in Global Civil Society 3. New Subjects: Children across borders 4. New Strategies: Follow the money 5. New Rights: Our bodies, ourselves 6. Conclusion: Private authority and global governance References Index