Ethics in action
Subtitle: the ethical challenges of international human rights nongovernmental organizations
By: edited by Daniel A. Bell, Jean-Marc Coicaud.
Contributors: Bell, Daniel 1964-; Coicaud, Jean-Marc.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521865661; 9780521684491
Subjects: Non-governmental organizations; Human rights; Political ethics
Description: This book was produced after a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). Its three parts reflect major ethical challenges discussed at workshops: ethical challenges associated with interaction between rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on activities of human rights INGOs; and tension between expanding organization's mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it to more immediate violations of civil and political rights.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The pornography of poverty : a cautionary fundraising tale / Bette Plewes and Rieky Stuart; title: An imperfect process : funding human rights; title: a case study / Mona Younis; title: Transformational development as the key to housing rights / Steven Weir; title: Human rights INGOs, the north-south gap : the challenge of normative and empirical learning / Bonny Ibhawoh; title: Dilemmas facing INGOs in coalition-occupied Iraq / Lyal Sunga; title: Human rights in action : supporting human rights work in authoritarian countries / Birgit Lindsnaes, Hans-Otto Sano, and Hatla Thelle; title: Driving without a map : implementing legal projects in China aimed at improving human rights / Sophia Woodman; title: Normative compliance and hard bargaining : China's strategies and tactics in response to international human rights criticism / Sun Zhe; title: Defending economic, social and cultural rights : practical issues faced by an international human rights organization / Kenneth Roth; title: Thinking through social and economic rights / Neera Chandhoke; title: Amnesty International and economic, social and cultural rights / by Curt Goering; title: Moral priorities for international human rights NGOs / Thomas W. Pogge; title: The problem of doing good in a world that isn't : reflections on the ethical challenges facing INGOs / Joseph H. Carens; title: Conclusion: International NGOs as collective mobilization of transnational solidarity : implications for human rights work at the United Nations / Jean-Marc Coicaud.