The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights

Name: The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights
Author: G. Andreopoulos

A Critical Approach to Advocacy

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2014

ISBN13: 9781349488322

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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.

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ISBN13:9781349488322

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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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

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