Transnational Advocacy Networks And Human Rights Law

Author : Giulia Dondoli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429760358

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Transnational Advocacy Networks and Human Rights Law by Giulia Dondoli Pdf

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate. To answer this, the book focuses on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and on the case study of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) rights. The work argues that the way in which NGOs decide their advocacy, conceptualise human rights violations and strategically present legal analysis to advance LGBTI human rights shapes the human rights debate. To demonstrate this, the book analyses three data sets: NGO written statements submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council, NGO oral statements delivered during the Universal Periodic Review and 36 semi-structured interviews with NGO staff. Data are analysed with a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches to discover what issues are most important for LGBTI networks (issue emergence) and how these issues are framed (issue framing). Along with NGO efficiency in lobbying for the emergence of new human rights standards, the book inevitably discusses important questions related to NGOs’ accountability and democratic legitimacy. The book thus asks whether the right to marry is important for LGBTI advocates working transnationally, because this right is particularly controversial among activists and LGBTI communities, especially in non-Western contexts.

Author : Evans, Peter,Garavito Rodríguez, César Augusto,Sikkink, Kathryn,Murdie, Amanda,Davis, David R.,Park, Baekkwan,Wilsonh, Maya,Hochstetler, Kathryn,Bickford, Louis,Paredes, Maritza,Peruzzotti, Enrique,MacDowell Santos, Cecília,Ikawa, Daniela,Lettinga, Doutje,Mander, Harsh
Publisher : Djusticia
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789585441569

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Transnational Advocacy Networks by Evans, Peter,Garavito Rodríguez, César Augusto,Sikkink, Kathryn,Murdie, Amanda,Davis, David R.,Park, Baekkwan,Wilsonh, Maya,Hochstetler, Kathryn,Bickford, Louis,Paredes, Maritza,Peruzzotti, Enrique,MacDowell Santos, Cecília,Ikawa, Daniela,Lettinga, Doutje,Mander, Harsh Pdf

Activists, particularly those based in the global South, have accumulated a wealth of experience in dealing with a range of transnational networks operating in diverse issue areas. New theoretical understandings have reflected this accumulating experience. As the twentieth century came to a close, the practice of global and transnational politics was undergoing a sea change. Understandings of its dynamics were changing along with the practice. Classic paradigms of international relations, which had focused almost exclusively on relations among nation-states, were being expanded to consider the impact of transnational civil society organizations. Recognition of the role of new nonstate actors in global politics was epitomized by the impact of Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink’s Activists beyond Borders in 1998. Their framework is a foundational reference point for the analyses of recent and future trends that are set out in this book. This volume brings together a set of ten essays by reflective activists who draw on their experience to provide new insights into what has been happening in the world of transnational advocacy, and by engaged academics who are committed to using the tools of their disciplines to contribute to the same agenda. The essays reflect not only the views of individual authors but also the collective dialogue among the authors at the workshop where the papers were originally presented in the spring of 2015.

Author : Margaret E. Keck,Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801471292

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Activists beyond Borders by Margaret E. Keck,Kathryn Sikkink Pdf

In Activists beyond Borders, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant impact in human rights, especially in Latin America, and advocacy networks have strongly influenced environmental politics as well. The authors also examine the emergence of an international campaign around violence against women.

Author : Jennifer Nicoll Victor,Alexander H. Montgomery,Mark Lubell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1011 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190228217

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks by Jennifer Nicoll Victor,Alexander H. Montgomery,Mark Lubell Pdf

Politics is intuitively about relationships, but until recently the network perspective has not been a dominant part of the methodological paradigm that political scientists use to study politics. This volume is a foundational statement about networks in the study of politics.

Author : Shareen Hertel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501727290

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Unexpected Power by Shareen Hertel Pdf

U.S. human rights advocacy has long focused on civil and political rights-issues such as torture, censorship, and lack of democratic freedoms abroad. In the 1990s a series of high-profile anti-sweatshop and fair-trade campaigns shifted the spotlight to labor issues. But as human rights activists in the United States and elsewhere take up the cause of economic exploitation, they don't always agree on the nature of the problem, or on what should be done to address it. What is more, they do not necessarily have the final say: in many cases, the focus of a campaign will shift when local activists make their voices heard or when the imported aims of nongovernmental organizations conflict with the goals of the people they intend to help. Shareen Hertel explores the dramatic negotiations within cross-border human rights campaigns. Activists on the receiving end of such campaigns do much more than seek the help of powerful allies beyond their borders. They often also challenge outsiders' understandings of basic human rights—in some cases, directly (by "blocking" campaigns intended to help them) and in other cases, indirectly (by employing "backdoor moves" aimed at more subtly introducing new human rights norms). Hertel looks closely at struggles for human rights in two contexts: Bangladesh, where activists challenged the understanding of human rights central to an international campaign to prevent child labor in that country, and Mexico, where activists sought to broaden the scope of efforts to prevent discrimination against pregnant workers in their country. Hertel connects these unexpected challenges to a new wave of international advocacy, and thereby illuminates democratic struggles in the new global economy.

Author : Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691192710

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Evidence for Hope by Kathryn Sikkink Pdf

A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. Guantánamo is still open and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to doubts about human rights laws and institutions. Past and current trends indicate that in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective. Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how essential advances can be sustained for decades to come.

Author : Thomas Risse,Stephen C. Ropp,Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521658829

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The Power of Human Rights by Thomas Risse,Stephen C. Ropp,Kathryn Sikkink Pdf

In Tunisia and Morocco.

Author : John Parke Young Chair in Global Political Economy Sanjeev Khagram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0816693447

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Restructuring World Politics by John Parke Young Chair in Global Political Economy Sanjeev Khagram Pdf

A comprehensive look at the global movements that are transforming international relations.

Author : Andrew Yeo,Danielle Chubb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108425490

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North Korean Human Rights by Andrew Yeo,Danielle Chubb Pdf

This volume explores the emergence, evolution, and politics of North Korean human rights activism and its relevance for international policy.

Author : Dennis Redeker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1246288171

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Digital Constitutionalism by Dennis Redeker Pdf

Author : Wendy S. Hesford,Wendy Kozol
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813535891

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Just Advocacy? by Wendy S. Hesford,Wendy Kozol Pdf

Bringing together some of the most respected scholars in the field, including Inderpal Grewal, Leela Fernandes, Leigh Gilmore, Susan Koshy, Patrice McDermott, and Sidonie Smith, Just Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked ways that women and children are further subjugated when political or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray the individuals that are helping them as paternal saviors.

Author : Jean H. Quataert
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812206126

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Advocating Dignity by Jean H. Quataert Pdf

In Advocating Dignity, Jean H. Quataert explores the emergence, development, and impact of the human rights revolution following World War II. Intertwining popular local and national mobilizations for rights with ongoing developments of a formal international system of rights monitoring in the United Nations, Quataert argues that human rights advocacy networks have been a vital dimension of international political developments since 1945. Recalling the popular slogan "Think globally, act locally," she contends that postwar human rights have been shaped by the efforts of people at the grassroots. She shows that human rights politics are constituted locally and reinforced by transnational linkages in international society. The U.N. system is continuously reinvigorated and strengthened by its ties to local individuals, organizations, and groups engaged in day-to-day rights advocacy. This daily work, in turn, is supported by the ongoing activities from above. Quataert establishes the global contexts for the historical unfolding of human rights advocacy through thorough studies of such cases as the Soviet dissident movement, the mothers' demonstrations in Argentina, the transnational antiapartheid campaign, and coalitions for gender and economic justice. Drawing from many fields of inquiry, including legal studies, philosophy, international relations theory, political science, and gender history, Advocating Dignity is an innovative work that narrates the hopes and bitter struggles that have altered the course of international and domestic relations over the past sixty years.

Author : David P. Forsythe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789905915

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Advanced Introduction to the Politics of International Human Rights by David P. Forsythe Pdf

David P. Forsythe presents a compelling introduction to international human rights in a political context. He stresses the difficulties of interjecting human rights into foreign policy and international politics, while recognising the considerable progress that has been made over time. Focusing on international organizations, states, corporations, and private advocacy groups, Forsythe addresses key themes including war, migration, climate change, and slavery.

Author : Alison Brysk,Michael Stohl
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788972864

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Contesting Human Rights by Alison Brysk,Michael Stohl Pdf

Illustrated with case studies from across the globe, Contesting Human Rights provides an innovative approach to human rights, and examines the barriers and changing pathways to the full realisation of these rights. Presenting a thorough proposal for the reframing of human rights, the volume suggests that new opportunities at, and below, the state level, and creative pathways of global governance can help reconstruct human rights in the face of modern challenges.

Author : Serge Brammertz,Michelle J. Jarvis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198768562

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Prosecuting Conflict-related Sexual Violence at the ICTY by Serge Brammertz,Michelle J. Jarvis Pdf

Documenting the experiences, achievements, challenges, and fundamental insights of the Office of the Prosecutor in prosecuting conflict-related sexual violence crimes at the ICTY, this volume analyses and recommends ways to overcome the obstacles faced in prioritizing, investigating and prosecuting conflict-related sexual violence crimes.