Human rights advocacy stories
By: edited by Deena R. Hurwitz, Margaret L. Satterthwaite ; with Doug Ford.
Contributors: Hurwitz, Deena.; Satterthwaite, Margaret L.
Publisher: Foundation Press; Thomson/West; Brand: Foundation Press; West Academic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; [St. Paul, MN]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9781599411996
Subjects: Human rights advocacy; Human rights
Other titles: Foundation Press human rights advocacy stories
Notes: At head of title: Foundation Press

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Outlawing torture: the story of Amnesty International's efforts to shape the U.N. convention against torture  -- Jayne Huckerby and  Sir Nigel Rodley; title: The story of the TAC case: the potential and limits of socio-economic rights litigation in South Africa  -- Amy Kapczynski and Jonathan M. Berger -- The stories of Dudgeon and Toonen: personal struggles to legalize sexual identities / -- Mark Bromley and Kristen Walker; title: Gaining legal recognition of indigenous land rights: the story of the Awas Tingni case in Nicaragua  -- S. James Anaya and Maia S. Campbell; title: The law of the republic versus the "law of the brothers": a story of France's law banning religious symbols in public schools  -- Karima Bennounce; title: Engendering genocide: the Akayesu case before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda  -- Beth Van Schaack; title: The story of Samuel Hinga Norman in Sierra Leone: can truth commissions and criminal prosecutions coexist after conflict?  -- Ari S. Bassin and Paul Van Zyl; title: Universal jurisdiction and the dilemmas of international criminal justice: the Sabra and Shatila case in Belgium  -- Deena R. Hurwitz; title: Arresting juxtapositions: the story of Roper v. Simmons  -- Alison J. Nathan -- The story of Narmada Bachao Andolan: human rights in the global economy and the struggle against the World Bank / -- Smita Narula; title: The story of Sale v. Haitian Centers Council: Guantánamo and refoulement  -- Harold Hongju Koh and Michael J. Wishnie; title: The story of Doe v. Unocal: justice delayed but not denied  -- Katie Redford and Beth Stephens; title: Inspiring and inadequate: the Krstić genocide conviction through the eyes of a Srebrenica survivor  -- Doug Ford; title: The story of Hamid Karzai: the paradoxes of state-building and human rights  -- Aziz Z. Huq; title: The story of El-Masri v. Tenet: human rights and humanitarian law in the "war on terror" -- Margaret L. Satterthwaite.