The international struggle for new human rights /
In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights norms...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : fighting for new rights / Clifford Bob
- Orphaned again? Children born of wartime rape as a non-issue for the human rights movement / R. Charli Carpenter
- "Dalit rights are human rights" : untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian state / Clifford Bob
- Applying the gatekeeper model of human rights activism : the U.S.-based movement for LGBT rights / Julie Mertus
- From resistance to receptivity : transforming the HIV/AIDS crisis into a human rights issue / Jeremy Youde
- Disability rights and the human rights mainstream : reluctant gate-crashers? / Janet E. Lord
- New rights for private wrongs : female genital mutilation and global framing dialogues / Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk
- Economic rights and extreme poverty : moving toward subsistence / Daniel Chong
- Local claims, international standards, and the human right to water / Paul J. Nelson.