NGO Leadership and Human Rights
NGO Leadership and Human Rights

Author: Richard K. Ghere

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781565494183

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NGO Leadership and Human Rights covers various topics of importance to those who work in development and/or advocacy organizations with human rights orientations and for undergraduate and graduate students aspiring to such careers. This book provides context, definition and guidance for the perplexed seeking entrance into a challenging but rewarding endeavor. Ghere argues that the human rights and development communities need to communicate and interact with each other much more effectively than is the case at present. In particular, leaders of human rights and development NGOs need to get on the same page in terms of both theory and practice. In addition to being an informative guide for a career choice, NGO Leadership and Human Rights stands as a readable state of the art survey on the scholarship and history of human rights.

NGO's and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
NGO's and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Author: W. Korey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-02-02

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0230108164

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When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 50 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt, its principal architect, predicted that a 'curious grapevine' would carry its message behind barbed wire and stone walls. This book tells the extraordinary story of how NGOs became the 'grapevine' she anticipated - sharpening our awareness about the violations of human rights, 'shaming' its most notorious abusers and creating the international mechanisms to bring about implementation of the Declaration. Korey traces how NGO's laid the groundwork for the destruction of the Soviet empire, as well as of the apartheid system in South Africa, and established the principle of accountability for crimes against humanity. The notion of human rights has progressed from being a marginal part of international relations a half century ago to stand today as a critical element in diplomatic discourse and this book shows that it is the NGOs that have placed human rights at the centre of humankind's present and future agenda.

The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs
The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 1088

ISBN-13: 9004516786

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This book focuses, for the first time ever, on the protection roles of human rights NGOs since the establishment of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also looks at how NGOs are responding to future challenges such as artificial Intelligence, robots in armed conflicts, digital threats, and the protection of human rights in outer space. Written by leading NGO human rights practitioners from different parts of the world, it sheds light on the multiple roles of the leading pillar of the global human rights movement, the Non-Governmental Organizations.

The United Nations System for Protecting Human Rights
The United Nations System for Protecting Human Rights

Author: Dinah L. Shelton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1351880756

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The United Nations has been at the forefront of developing the international law of human rights for nearly seven decades. This volume brings together the leading research articles on the development of human rights law by the United Nations and also includes essays on issues relating to standard-setting, institutional evolution, and the creation of monitoring procedures.

Human Rights NGOs in East Africa
Human Rights NGOs in East Africa

Author: Makau Mutua

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2013-05-29

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 0812203933

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Human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are by definition not part of the state. Rather, they are an element of civil society, the strands of the fabric of organized life in countries, and crucial to the prospect of political democracy. Civil society is a very recent phenomenon in East African nations, where authoritarian regimes have prevailed and human rights watchdogs have had a critical role to play. While the state remains one of the major challenges to human rights efforts in the countries of the region, other problems that are internal to the human rights movement are also of a serious nature, and they are many: What are the social bases of the human rights enterprise in transitional societies? What mandate can human rights NGOs claim, and in whose name do they operate? Human Rights NGOs in East Africa critically explores the anatomy of the human rights movement in the East African region, examining its origins, challenges, and emergent themes in the context of political transitions. In particular, the book seeks to understand the political and normative challenges that face this young but vibrant civil society in the vortex of globalization. The book brings together the most celebrated human rights thinkers in East Africa, enriched by contributions from their colleagues in South Africa and the United States. To date, very little has been written about the struggles and accomplishments of civil society in the nations of East Africa. This book will fill that gap and prove to be an invaluable tool for understanding and teaching about human rights in this complex and vital part of the world.

Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights
Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights

Author: Michaelene Cox

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1317089235

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Providing an overview of institutional developments and innovations in human rights politics, this volume discusses some of the most important current and emerging human rights issues. It takes stock of the initiatives, policy responses and innovations of past years to identify some of the challenges that will likely require bold and innovative solutions. The contributors focus on actors and/or issues that are outside the mainstream of international human rights politics; the chapters address issues that have only emerged as an important part of the international human rights agenda and generated much advocacy, diplomacy and negotiations since the end of the Cold War. These issues include: the International Criminal Court, the norm of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and its human rights impact, truth commissions, and the rights of persons with disabilities. The contributions offer a direct challenge to entrenched notions of state sovereignty and represent a departure from established ways of policy making.

Fighting for Human Rights
Fighting for Human Rights

Author: Paul Gready

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1134381123

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Documents and compares successful high profile campaigns to cancel debt, ban landmines and set up the International Criminal Court as well as emerging campaigns on HIV/AIDS, genetic engineering, environmental justice and democratization.

The Effectiveness of Domestic Human Rights NGOs
The Effectiveness of Domestic Human Rights NGOs

Author: Scott Calnan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-11-30

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9047431472

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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.

The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations
The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations

Author: David Lewis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-12-11

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1134197578

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The first edition of this book was published in 2001 by Routledge and was the first academic text on the important new emerging field of NGO management. It sets out the field for researchers with a new and original conceptual framework, contains a comprehensive review of existing literature from a variety of disciplines (including management, development studies, and social policy) and provides wide-ranging examples from the author’s own practical and research experience. New to this edition: twelve new detailed case studies of NGO management issues and challenges new discussion points, lessons learned and questions for debate to guide the reader through each chapter definitions of key terms highlighted key ideas to illustrate each chapter. Revealing the distinctive organizational challenges faced by NGOs this second edition provides a fully updated and revised text that will prove invaluable to all those studying or working in NGOs, the voluntary sector or development studies. Visit the Companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/978-0-415-37093-6.