Human Rights NGOs in East Africa : : Political and Normative Tensions / / ed. by Makau Mutua.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Burnham, Margaret A.,; Gupta, Shaila,; Kanyinga, Karuti,; Kellman, Alycia,; Miano, J. Wanjiku,; Murungi, Betty K.,; Muteshi, Jacinta K.,; Mutua, Makau,; Mutunga, Willy,; Nabudere, Dani W.,; Ngondi-Houghton, Connie,; Oloka-Onyango, Joe,; Peter, Chris Maina,; Sewanyana, Livingstone,; Tamale, Sylvia,; Wanyeki, L. Muthoni,
• HerausgeberIn: Mutua, Makau,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 1 illus.

Human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are by definition not part of the state. Rather, they are an element of civil society, the strands of the fabric of organized life in countries, and crucial to the prospect of political democracy. Civil society is a very recent phenomenon in East African nations, where authoritarian regimes have prevailed and human rights watchdogs have had a critical role to play. While the state remains one of the major challenges to human rights efforts in the countries of the region, other problems that are internal to the human rights movement are also of a serious nature, and they are many: What are the social bases of the human rights enterprise in transitional societies? What mandate can human rights NGOs claim, and in whose name do they operate?Human Rights NGOs in East Africa critically explores the anatomy of the human rights movement in the East African region, examining its origins, challenges, and emergent themes in the context of political transitions. In particular, the book seeks to understand the political and normative challenges that face this young but vibrant civil society in the vortex of globalization. The book brings together the most celebrated human rights thinkers in East Africa, enriched by contributions from their colleagues in South Africa and the United States.To date, very little has been written about the struggles and accomplishments of civil society in the nations of East Africa. This book will fill that gap and prove to be an invaluable tool for understanding and teaching about human rights in this complex and vital part of the world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. Defining Challenges to Civil Society in East Africa -- CHAPTER ONE. Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges -- CHAPTER TWO. To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya -- PART II. Interrogating NGO Mandates: Gender, Sexuality, and ESC Rights -- CHAPTER THREE. Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs -- CHAPTER FOUR. NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective -- CHAPTER FIVE. Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity -- CHAPTER SIX. Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State -- PART III. Donors and Grantees: Convergences and Divergences -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya -- PART IV. State/Civil Society Relations -- CHAPTER NINE. State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change -- CHAPTER TEN. Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs -- PART FIVE. NGO Institutional Case Studies -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Mrican Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-Mrican Organizing in Human Rights -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs -- PART VI. South/South and North/South NGO Relations -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa -- Conclusion: Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Mrica -- NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS