Bøger i Advancing Human Rights series serien

Tells the story of how women's organizations got savvy - framing the issues strategically, seizing political opportunities in the international environment, and taking advantage of mobilizing structures - and overcame the cultural opposition of many UN-member states to broadly define the issues in women's rights as an international cause.

After World War II, NGOs emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. Some focused on protecting human rights, some were dedicated to development, aimed at satisfying basic economic needs. This book tracks the intersection and even overlap of human rights and development NGOs.

If, as Kent argues, everyone has a human right to adequate food, it follows that those who can empower the poor have a duty to see that right implemented, and the obligation to be held morally and legally accountable for seeing that that right is realized for everyone, everywhere.

How are we to reconcile the language of rights with the reality? Do we live in an age of rights after all? This title provides a quantitative analysis of the marked gap between the principle and practice of human rights.

Retrieving insights from a variety of approaches, the author defends an account of human rights that straddles the minimalist-maximalist divide, one that links human rights to a conception of our common humanity and to the notion that ethical realism gives the most satisfying account of our commitment to the equal moral worth of all human beings.

Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Filartiga was taken from his family home in Asuncion, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police. This title tells the inside story of the quest for justice by his father - the true target of the police - Paraguayan artist and philanthropist Dr Joel Filartiga.

Serves as a comparative study of how and why IGOs integrate human rights standards into their development operations. This book focuses on the process of policy innovation in three UN-related IGOs: the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Looks at human rights and Islam as a religious issue rather than a political or legal one and draws on three revered Islamic scholars to offer a range of perspectives that challenge our assumptions about the role of religion in human rights.

In this new century, born in hope but soon thereafter cloaked in terror, many see religion and politics as a volatile, if not deadly, mixture. This book uncovers a remarkable time when that was not so; when together, those two entities gave rise to a new ideal: universal human rights.