Human Rights NGOs in East Africa : : Political and Normative Tensions /

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

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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 Afr...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 1 illus.
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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

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