Making Equal Rights Real: Taking Effective Action to Overcome Global Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781107008458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 420 str.

Jody Heymann

Opis

Details approaches to implementing equal rights for women in Africa, children in the Middle East and different minorities in Asia and North America.

Recenzje

"[This] volume provides useful perspectives from scholars and practitioners on how community education, budget policy, participatory legal drafting, and other processes that have only recently garnered attention affect the realization of rights guarantees... of particular use to students, advocates, and scholars of advocacy interested in rights in action."

-- J.D. Marshall, Carthage College, Reviewing for Choice Magazine

Spis treści

Part I. Conventions and Constitutions: 1. Forging effective international agreements: lessons from the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities Michael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord; 2. Ensuring equal rights in constitutions: public participation in drafting economic, social and cultural rights Jill Cottrell; Part II. Laws and Policies: 3. Putting economic rights into practice: strategies from labor and employment law Benjamin Sachs; 4. Promoting equity in economic rights: the case of gender and land rights Elisa Scalise and Renée Giovarelli; 5. Equalizing social and cultural rights: approaches to equity across ethnic and racial groups Grace-Edward Galabuzi; Part III. Budgets and Information: 6. Public access to information: the keystone to claiming and defending rights Agnès Callamard; 7. Government budgets and rights implementation: experience from around the world Ann Blyberg; 8. Budgets, information and participation: civil society approaches to increasing rights accountability Roberto Bissio; Part IV. Case Studies of Successful Cross-Cutting Approaches: 9. An integrated approach to advancing children's rights and participation in Jordan Samia Bishara-Rizeq, Sirsa A. Qursha and Laila S. Abdul Majeed; 10. Working within communities to increase gender equity in Zambia Robyn Wisken; 11. Realizing equal rights in practice for people with disabilities in Argentina and the United States Mary MacLennan; 12. Guaranteeing legal rights for sexual and gender minorities in Nepal Alexandra Lesnikowski.