The politics of human rights protection
Subtitle: moving intervention upstream with impact assessment
By: Jan Knippers Black.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780742540514; 9780742557291
Subjects: Human rights; Political violence; Political atrocities -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "This important work argues that human rights abuse is not necessarily about distant places and peoples, and it is neither incomprehensible nor inevitable. Despite the appearance of consensus about the importance of human rights protection, abuse - with its common core in inequality - is expanding at all levels from the petty to the profound. Designed to inform and inspire, this book also provides the analytical and strategic tools needed for the next generation of activists. Jan Knippers Black offers a fundamental reexamination of the basic terms and concepts, legal and institutional foundations, controversies, cleavages, threats and strategies associated with human rights." "Black's perspective is holistic, stressing the relevance of human rights issues to all human needs and endeavors and requiring multidisciplinary analysis. Chapters analyzing connections among political, economic, ecological, and cultural impacts on social and individual well-being are accompanied by case studies highlighting lessons learned from success or failure. This empowering book seeks to promote an "each for all" commitment, breaking through barriers of ignorance and apathy, denial and despair, so that advocates and activists can work to prevent future atrocities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The human rights perspective and the need for impact assessment; title: What's in a name? Deconstructing human rights terms and concepts; title: The dialectics of building an international human rights regime; title: Human rights cleavages and controversies : the discourse; title: The globalization of vulnerability; title: From the ashes : Argentina's return from meltdown; title: Participation and accountability; title: Wayfarers in a walled-up world; title: Chile's long way home; title: The political dimensions of diversity; title: Feminism, democracy, and self-determination : the Taiwanese experience; title: The naked ape in nature : master or guardian?; title: China's three gorges : the dam and the damned; title: From sustainable war to sustainable peace; title: Against all odds : East Timor's quest for independence; title: Empire as a state of war; title: Terror and the war to end all rights; title: Cautious mainstreaming, constructive subversion; title: Conclusion : playing from strength.