Human rights from below : achieving rights through community development / Jim Ife.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ife, Jim, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Human rights--Social aspects.

Community development.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Summary:

In Human Rights From Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contends that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights can be better realised when community development principles are applied.

The book offers along overdue assessment of how human rights and community development are invariably interconnected. It highlights how critical it is to understand the two as a basis for thinking about and taking action to address the serious challenges facing the world in the twenty first century.

Written for students, community development and human rights workers, Human Rights From Below brings together the important fields of human rights and community development, to enrich our thinking of both.

Contents:

Part 1 Thinking about community development

Chapter 1 Definitions and imperatives of community development 9

Chapter 2 Principles and dimensions of community development 29

Part 2 Thinking about human rights

Chapter 3 Definitions and imperatives of human rights 69

Chapter 4 Principles and dimensions of human rights 84

Part 3 Bringing human rights and community development together

Chapter 5 Principles of human rights from below 123

Part 4 Enacting human rights from below

Chapter 6 Seven arenas of human rights from below 157

Chapter 7 Practicing human rights from below 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521711081

0521711088

OCLC:

436264411