Human Rights from Community : : A Rights-Based Approach to Development / / Oche Onazi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Onazi, Oche,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights : SGJHR
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

How community can inspire poor and vulnerable individuals to realise their human rightsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748654673','ISBN:9780748654680','ISBN:9780748654703']);Poverty, exclusion and lack of participation are symptomatic of state and market-based approaches to human rights. Oche Onazi uses Nigeria as a case study to show how the idea of community is a better alternative, capable of inspiring the poor and the vulnerable to organise themselves democratically and claim ownership of the processes that determine their human rights.Key FeaturesShows how human rights can be better disposed to all the ramifications of developmentConsiders both the strengths and limitations of human rightsPromotes the role of community within human rights discourseShows how the interaction between community and human rights can offer more responsive solutions to problems such as access to electricity"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Analytical Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Human Rights and Community: Unlocking the Deadlock -- 2 Are Human Rights Enough? -- 3 Good Governance as Metaphor for Development -- 4 Good Governance and the Marketisation of Human Rights -- 5 The Good Governance of Electricity: Nigeria as Case Study -- 6 Reclaiming Human Rights: A Theory of Community -- 7 Electricity for Community by Community: The Co-operative Model -- Conclusion: Imagining a Post-State Human Rights Discourse -- Bibliography -- Index