Minding the Gap: Global Finance and Human Rights [Abstract]
Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 25.2 (Summer 2011)
Mary Dowell-Jones, David Kinley
June 30, 2011
Although there now exists a large and growing body of literature and initiatives on finance and human rights separately, the integration of the two fields has so far been shallow and narrowly focused around a few key areas that are most easily comprehensible to those without specialist financial knowledge. Large swaths of the financial system that have important consequences for human rights realization have barely been touched by human rights analysis. This article highlights four technical aspects of the global financial system that offer an insight into the breadth and depth of global finance and its relationship with human rights, and that have so far been largely off the radar of human rights scholars.
