In a world that is increasingly disillusioned with formal politics, people are no longer prepared to wait for governments and international institutions for act on human rights concerns. This book identifies activism as a key means of realising human rights and as a new form of politics. Fighting for Human Rights documents and compares successful high profile campaigns to cancel debt in the developing world, ban landmines and set up the International Criminal Court as well as emerging campaigns that focus on HIV/AIDS, environmental justice, democratisation and blood diamonds. Motivated by...
In a world that is increasingly disillusioned with formal politics, people are no longer prepared to wait for governments and international institutio...
In a world that is increasingly disillusioned with formal politics, people are no longer prepared to wait for governments and international institutions to act on human rights concerns. This book identifies activism as a key means of realizing human rights and as a new form of politics. Fighting for Human Rights documents and compares successful high profile campaigns to cancel debt in the developing world, ban landmines and set up the International Criminal Court as well as emerging campaigns that focus on HIV/AIDS, environmental justice, democratization and blood diamonds.
In a world that is increasingly disillusioned with formal politics, people are no longer prepared to wait for governments and international institutio...
Writing as Resistance charts the inner workings of apartheid, through the encounters imprisonment, exile, and homecoming that crucially defined its violent reign and ultimate overthrow. Author Paul Gready demonstrates the transformative nature of autobiographical narrative as resistance in the context of political struggle. This multidisciplinary study addresses a range of important contemporary topics: migration, postcolonialism, globalization, nationalism, human rights, and political democratization, among others. While informed by the work of South African writers including Breytenbach,...
Writing as Resistance charts the inner workings of apartheid, through the encounters imprisonment, exile, and homecoming that crucially defined its vi...
This volume aims to identify what difference a rights-based approach makes in practice, and to contribute to a greater common understanding of what the rights-based approach means. These are urgent tasks given the amount of funding for and organizational investment in human rights. Addressing the range of areas influenced by this approach, the volume spans humanitarian relief, development and conflict resolution. It concludes that not only is human rights reinventing development, but development is also reinventing human rights.
This volume aims to identify what difference a rights-based approach makes in practice, and to contribute to a greater common understanding of what...
The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC. South Africa constitutes a powerful case study of the enduring structural legacies of a troubled past, and of both the potential and limitations of transitional justice and human rights as agents of transformation in the contemporary era. South Africa s story has wider relevance because it helped to launch constitutional human rights and transitional justice as global discourses; as such, its own legacy is to some extent writ large...
The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition and transitional justice through the prism of the South ...
This volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of human rights and development agendas at local, national and international levels. They examine how the growth of human rights into development affects organisational change, operational change and the role of relevant actors in bringing about change.
This volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of human rights and development agendas at local, national and international...
