The politics of human rights protection
By: Jan Knippers Black
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub, Inc
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780742540521
Subjects: Human rights; Political violence; Case studies; Atrocities
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 seeming consensus about the importance of human rights protection, abuse_based in inequality_continues to expand. This empowering book seeks to break through barriers of ignorance, apathy, denial, and despair that allow decent people to tolerate indecent acts by their governments, and to arm a new generation of human rights advocates with analytical and strategic tools to prevent future atrocities--Product description.
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.