The international struggle for new human rights

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The international struggle for new human rights

edited by Clifford Bob

(Pennsylvania studies in human rights)

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780812221299

内容説明

In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights norms before the United Nations and other international bodies. Often, these claims have met strong resistance from governments and corporations. More surprisingly, even apparent allies, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other nongovernmental organizations, have voiced misgivings, arguing that rights "proliferation" will weaken efforts to protect their traditional concerns: civil and political rights. Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights issues while others are not? How do local activists transform long-standing problems into universal rights claims? When and why do human rights groups, governments, and international organizations endorse new rights? The International Struggle for New Human Rights is the first book to address these issues. Focusing on activists who advance new rights, the book introduces a framework for understanding critical strategies and conflicts involved in the struggle to persuade the human rights movement to move beyond traditional problems and embrace pressing new ones. Essays in the volume consider rights activism by such groups as the South Asian Dalits, sexual minorities, and children of wartime rape victims, while others explore new issues such as health rights, economic rights, and the right to water. Examining both the successes and failures of such campaigns, The International Struggle for New Human Rights will be a key resource not only for scholars but also for those on the front lines of human rights work.

目次

1. Introduction: Fighting for New Rights -Clifford Bob 2. Orphaned Again? Children Born of Wartime Rape as a Nonissue for the Human Rights Movement -R. Charli Carpenter 3. "Dalit Rights Are Human Rights": Untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian State -Clifford Bob 4. Applying the Gatekeeper Model of Human Rights Activism: The U.S.-Based Movement for LGBT Rights -Julie Mertus 5. From Resistance to Receptivity: Transforming the HIV/AIDS Crisis into a Human Rights Issue -Jeremy Youde 6. Disability Rights and the Human Rights Mainstream: Reluctant Gate-Crashers? -Janet E. Lord 7. New Rights for Private Wrongs: Female Genital Mutilation and Global Framing Dialogues -Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk 8. Economic Rights and Extreme Poverty: Moving Toward Subsistence -Daniel Chong 9. Local Claims, International Standards, and the Human Right to Water -Paul J. Nelson Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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ISBN 9780812241310

内容説明

In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights norms before the United Nations and other international bodies. Often, these claims have met strong resistance from governments and corporations. More surprisingly, even apparent allies, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other nongovernmental organizations, have voiced misgivings, arguing that rights "proliferation" will weaken efforts to protect their traditional concerns: civil and political rights. Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights issues while others are not? How do local activists transform long-standing problems into universal rights claims? When and why do human rights groups, governments, and international organizations endorse new rights? The International Struggle for New Human Rights is the first book to address these issues. Focusing on activists who advance new rights, the book introduces a framework for understanding critical strategies and conflicts involved in the struggle to persuade the human rights movement to move beyond traditional problems and embrace pressing new ones. Essays in the volume consider rights activism by such groups as the South Asian Dalits, sexual minorities, and children of wartime rape victims, while others explore new issues such as health rights, economic rights, and the right to water. Examining both the successes and failures of such campaigns, The International Struggle for New Human Rights will be a key resource not only for scholars but also for those on the front lines of human rights work.

目次

1. Introduction: Fighting for New Rights -Clifford Bob 2. Orphaned Again? Children Born of Wartime Rape as a Nonissue for the Human Rights Movement -R. Charli Carpenter 3. "Dalit Rights Are Human Rights": Untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian State -Clifford Bob 4. Applying the Gatekeeper Model of Human Rights Activism: The U.S.-Based Movement for LGBT Rights -Julie Mertus 5. From Resistance to Receptivity: Transforming the HIV/AIDS Crisis into a Human Rights Issue -Jeremy Youde 6. Disability Rights and the Human Rights Mainstream: Reluctant Gate-Crashers? -Janet E. Lord 7. New Rights for Private Wrongs: Female Genital Mutilation and Global Framing Dialogues -Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk 8. Economic Rights and Extreme Poverty: Moving Toward Subsistence -Daniel Chong 9. Local Claims, International Standards, and the Human Right to Water -Paul J. Nelson Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA88690279
  • ISBN
    • 9780812241310
    • 9780812221299
  • LCCN
    2008025520
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Philadelphia
  • ページ数/冊数
    vi, 194 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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