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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 before the United Nations and other international bodies. Often, these claims have met strong resistance from governments and corporations. More surprisingly, even apparent allies, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other nongovernmental organizations, have voiced misgivings, arguing that rights "proliferation" will weaken efforts to protect their traditional concerns: civil and political rights. Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights issues while others are not? How do local activists transform long-standing problems into universal rights claims? When and why do human rights groups, governments, and international organizations endorse new rights? The International Struggle for New Human Rights is the first book to address these issues. Focusing on activists who advance new rights, the book introduces a framework for understanding critical strateg

Who reads The International Struggle For New Human Rights (pennsylvania Studies In Human Rights)?

Author

Clifford A Bob; Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association; Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812241310

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences