The effectiveness of domestic human rights NGOs
Subtitle: a comparative study
By: by Scott Calnan.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9789004170216
Subjects: Human rights; Non-governmental organizations
Description: "Although human rights NGOs, and especially domestic human rights NGOs, have become crucial to the human rights movement over the years, very little literature exists which describes their operations or sets out a framework in which they can be critically examined. This book sets out to begin to fill this gap by focusing on how NGOs mobilise the law and how their effectiveness could be measured. Focusing on case studies of actual domestic human rights NGOs, and using a comparative methodology, this book focuses its analysis on the real life problems of human rights NGOs. The result is a revealing snapshot of the legal work of human rights NGOs and a vision of how they could become even more important in the future."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical approach and method; title: The tactics of human rights DNGOs in United States, Britain, and Germany; title: The structure of human rights DNGOs in the United States, Britain, and Germany; title: The acquisition of resources by human rights DNGOs in the United States, Britain, and Germany; title: The effectiveness of domestic human rights DNGOs in the United States, Britain, and Germany.