The International Struggle for New Human Rights /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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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

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