The International Struggle for New Human Rights / / ed. by Clifford Bob.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Baer, Madeline,; Bob, Clifford,; Brysk, Alison,; Carpenter, R. Charli,; Chong, Daniel,; Lord, Janet E.,; Mertus, Julie,; Nelson, Paul J.,; Youde, Jeremy,
• HerausgeberIn: Bob, Clifford,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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 strategies and conflicts involved in the struggle to persuade the human rights movement to move beyond traditional problems and embrace pressing new ones.Essays in the volume consider rights activism by such groups as the South Asian Dalits, sexual minorities, and children of wartime rape victims, while others explore new issues such as health rights, economic rights, and the right to water. Examining both the successes and failures of such campaigns, The International Struggle for New Human Rights will be a key resource not only for scholars but also for those on the front lines of human rights work.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Fighting for New Rights -- Chapter 2. Orphaned Again? Children Born of Wartime Rape as a Non-Issue for the Human Rights Movement -- Chapter 3. "Dalit Rights Are Human Rights": Untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian State -- Chapter 4. Applying the Gatekeeper Model of Human Rights Activism: The U.S.-Based Movement for LGBT Rights -- Chapter 5. From Resistance to Receptivity: Transforming the HIV/AIDS Crisis into a Human Rights Issue -- Chapter 6. Disability Rights and the Human Rights Mainstream: Reluctant Gate-Crashers? -- Chapter 7. New Rights for Private Wrongs: Female Genital Mutilation and Global Framing Dialogues -- Chapter 8. Economic Rights and Extreme Poverty: Moving toward Subsistence -- Chapter 9. Local Claims, International Standards, and the Human Right to Water -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments