The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights

A Critical Approach to Advocacy
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-40833-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4139 g

This volume focuses on challenges to the effective and proper use of human rights and tries to identify, through a series of case studies, strategies and contexts in which human rights advocacy can work in favor of human rights, as well as situations in which such advocacy may backfire, or unintentionally cause harm.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andreopoulos, G.

Arat, Z.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. On the Uses and Misuses of Human Rights; George Andreopoulos and Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, 2. 'Gay Rights are Human Rights': The Framing of New Interpretations of International Human Rights Norms; Ronald Holzhacker 3. The Politics of a Strange Right: Consultation, Mining and Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America; Amanda M. Fulmer 4. The Price of Confrontation: International Retributive Justice and the Struggle for Haitian-Dominican Rights; Samuel Martinez 5. The Human Rights Framing of Maternal Health: A Strategy for Politicization or a Path to Genuine Empowerment?; Candace Johnson and Surma Das 6. Arms Transfers and the Human Rights Agenda; Susan Waltz 7. Transitional Justice and Injustice: The Uses and Misuses of the Liberal Peace; Cyanne E. Loyle and Christian Davenport 8. Constituencies of Compassion: The Politics of Human Rights and Consumerism; Joel R. Pruce

Über Autor(innen)

George Andreopoulos, Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, University of Connecticut, USA
Surma Das, University of Guelph, Canada
Christian Davenport, University of Michigan, USA
Amanda M. Fulmer, University of Washington in Seattle, USA
Ronald Holzhacker, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Candace Johnson, University of Guelph, Canada
Cyanne E. Loyle, West Virginia University, USA
Samuel Martínez, University of Connecticut, USA
Joel R. Pruce, University of Dayton, USA
Susan Waltz, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, USA