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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Case studies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: International struggle for new human rights. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008025520 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Clifford Bob |
ISBN: | 9780812201345 0812201345 |
OCLC Number: | 794702148 |
Notes: | OldControl:muse9780812201345. |
Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction : fighting for new rights / Clifford Bob -- Orphaned again? Children born of wartime rape as a non-issue for the human rights movement / R. Charli Carpenter -- "Dalit rights are human rights" : untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian state / Clifford Bob -- Applying the gatekeeper model of human rights activism : the U.S.-based movement for LGBT rights / Julie Mertus -- From resistance to receptivity : transforming the HIV/AIDS crisis into a human rights issue / Jeremy Youde -- Disability rights and the human rights mainstream : reluctant gate-crashers? / Janet E. Lord -- New rights for private wrongs : female genital mutilation and global framing dialogues / Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk -- Economic rights and extreme poverty : moving toward subsistence / Daniel Chong -- Local claims, international standards, and the human right to water / Paul J. Nelson. |
Series Title: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights. |
Responsibility: | edited by Clifford Bob. |
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"The International Struggle for New Human Rights moves beyond the assumption that only the most in need, oppressed, and marginalized groups have the ability to internationalize their grievances through civil society organizing. Specifically, the volume highlights groups that have recently and successfully utilized human rights framing and rhetoric to gain international support for their cause and traces the why and how of this process."-Human Rights Quarterly "A tremendously important book. At its core, it is much more than an assessment of the efficacy and difficulties associated with employing a rights-based approach or framework to a wide range of grievances. Rather, it is a book about the possible, a book about the individuals and organizations who have refused to be satisfied with the status quo, and who have had the courage to try to convince others to see rights violations in places where they never saw them before. From this, we should take inspiration."-H-Net Read more...

