Joanne Bauer
(Former Director of Studies, Carnegie Council)

Joanne Bauer is a specialist in environmental issues, human rights, international policy and Asia. She is Senior Researcher and New York Representative for the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, where she also manages a project on HIV/AIDS.

For over ten years Joanne Bauer was Director of Studies at the Carnegie Council, where she founded and directed the Council's Human Rights Initiative and its multi-year project on values and environmental politics. From 1991-1994, Bauer was director of the Council's Japan Programs. Prior to joining the Council, Bauer held research positions in media, government, and banking.

An Asia specialist, Bauer is co-editor, with Daniel A. Bell, of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 1999). From 1994-2005 she was the editor of the magazine Human Rights Dialogue and has published a number of articles and reviews on human rights and environmental topics. Her most recent book is Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments (M.E. Sharpe, 2006).

Resources by this Author:

• The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and the Importance of Human Rights Policies
• Taking Stock of Business and Human Rights: Policies and Practices
• Can Cultural Values Save the Environment?
• Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects [Full Text]
• Introduction
• The Marsh Arabs of Iraq: The Legacy of Saddam Hussein and an Agenda for Restoration and Justice
• Why Cultural Rights Now?
• Musings on Swamps, Whales, and Rats
• Commentary on "The conflict between rights and environmentalism"
• Fighting for the Environment -- and Getting Democracy
• Indigenous Peoples and the Creation of an Inclusive International Legal System
• The Challenge to International Human Rights
• To Our Readers: Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box
• Introduction: The Human Rights Discourse in East Asia: Reports from the Region
• Cultural Sources of Human Rights in East Asia: Consensus Building Toward a Rights Regime
• The Bangkok Declaration Three years After: Reflections on the State of the Asia-West Dialogue on Human Rights
• International Human Rights and Asian Commitment
• About the Human Rights Initiative
• Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: The cases of North Korea, China, and Burma
• The Politics and Ethics of Global Environmental Leadership
• Whose Environmental Standards? Clarifying the Issues of Our Common Future

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