This volume focuses on challenges to the effective and proper use of human rights and tries to identify, through a series of case studies, strategies and contexts in which human rights advocacy can work in favor of human rights, as well as situations in which such advocacy may backfire, or unintentionally cause harm.

Autorentext
George Andreopoulos, Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, University of Connecticut, USA Surma Das, University of Guelph, Canada Christian Davenport, University of Michigan, USA Amanda M. Fulmer, University of Washington in Seattle, USA Ronald Holzhacker, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Candace Johnson, University of Guelph, Canada Cyanne E. Loyle, West Virginia University, USA Samuel Martínez, University of Connecticut, USA Joel R. Pruce, University of Dayton, USA Susan Waltz, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, USA

Inhalt

1. On the Uses and Misuses of Human Rights; George Andreopoulos and Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, 2. 'Gay Rights are Human Rights': The Framing of New Interpretations of International Human Rights Norms; Ronald Holzhacker 3. The Politics of a Strange Right: Consultation, Mining and Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America; Amanda M. Fulmer 4. The Price of Confrontation: International Retributive Justice and the Struggle for Haitian-Dominican Rights; Samuel Martinez 5. The Human Rights Framing of Maternal Health: A Strategy for Politicization or a Path to Genuine Empowerment?; Candace Johnson and Surma Das 6. Arms Transfers and the Human Rights Agenda; Susan Waltz 7. Transitional Justice and Injustice: The Uses and Misuses of the Liberal Peace; Cyanne E. Loyle and Christian Davenport 8. Constituencies of Compassion: The Politics of Human Rights and Consumerism; Joel R. Pruce