The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights [electronic resource] : A Critical Approach to Advocacy /
Andreopoulos, G.editor.
Arat, Z.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 On the Uses and Misuses of Human Rights: A Critical Approach to Advocacy1; Use, Abuse, and Misuse of Human Rights; Power and Human Rights; Contextualizing Human Rights Advocacy; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2 "Gay Rights Are Human Rights": The Framing of New Interpretations of International Human Rights Norms; Framing Processes; Early Scholarly Work-Emergence of New Human Rights Interpretations; Theorizing in Academia Concerning LGBT Persons and Human Rights; Media and the Emerging Framing in the Popular Press
Institutional Developments in Europe Adopting the Human Rights Frame for LGBT PersonsThe Council of Europe; The European Union; The United States; The United Nations; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 3 The Politics of a Strange Right: Consultation, Mining, and Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America; Introduction; A Note on Method; Scholarship on International Law; ILO 169 and the Right to Consultation; The Marlin Mine in Guatemala; Yanacocha and the Cerro Quilish Dispute in Cajamarca, Perú; Río Blanco/Majaz Project in Piura, Perú; Consultation and International Human Rights Law
Consultation and Contemporary Indigenous Mobilization in Latin AmericaNote; References; 4 The Price of Confrontation: International Retributive Justice and the Struggle for Haitian-Dominican Rights; The Haitian-Dominicans: Migrant and Minority Rights in Crisis; The Advocates and Their Goals; The Dominican Response; What Can Be Done?; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 5 The Human Rights Framing of Maternal Health: A Strategy for Politicization or a Path to Genuine Empowerment?; Safe Motherhood in the Global Context; The Judgment
From Entitlement to Policy: Is a "Human Rights" Framing an Adequate Response?State of Maternal Health in India; Some Philosophical Considerations; The "Right to Maternal Health" versus the "Right to Maternal Survival"; Conclusion; References; 6 Arms Transfers and the Human Rights Agenda; Origins of the Control Arms Campaign Coalition; Human Rights Concerns about the Arms Trade: The Long View; Concerns about Transfer of Specific Weapons or Security Supplies; Concerns about the Recipients of Transfers; Human Rights and the Small Arms Coalition; The Final Push for an Arms Trade Treaty; Notes
References7 Transitional Justice and Injustice: The Uses and Misuses of the Liberal Peace; Introduction; Transitional Justice and the Liberal Peace; Promoting Truth and Reconciliation; Preventing Armed Conflict; Increasing Democratization and Civic Participation; Outlining Transitional Injustice; Promoting Denial and Forgetting; Perpetuating Violence, Armed Conflict, and State Repression; Legitimating Authoritarianism and Decreasing Civic Engagement; Identifying Transitional Injustice in Practice; Levels of Armed Conflict and State Repression; Degree of Openness in Society
Degree of Openness of the Justice Process
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Human rights.
Political science.
Sociology.
Private international law.
Conflict of laws.
Social justice.
Human Rights.
Political Science.
Sociology, general.
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.