ABSTRACT
This book has built upon the work of other writers who have sought to establish a theoretical basis for applying international human rights law to the operations of one of the international economic actors examined here. For example, it draws upon the work of Howse in relation to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Skogly and Darrow in relation to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Clapham, Muchlinski and Jägers in relation to multinational enterprises. The goal of this book has been to draw together the ideas from those seminal works and paint a picture of a holistic system of international law that holds out the protection of international human rights law to all who are affected by economic activity occurring on the international plane. In some ways, it is the continuation of the project envisaged by Henkin when he asserted that the human rights principles set down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) exclude ‘no one, no company, no market, no cyberspace’.1
