Ethics in action : the ethical challenges of international human rights nongovernmental organizations / edited by Daniel A. Bell, Jean-Marc Coicaud.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, Daniel (Daniel A.), 1964- editor.

Coicaud, Jean-Marc, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations.

Human rights.

Political ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on the activities of human rights INGOs; and the tension between expanding the organization's mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it for the sake of focusing on more immediate and clearly identifiable violations of civil and political rights. Each section contains contributions by both theorists and practitioners of human rights.

Contents:

The pornography of poverty : a cautionary fundraising tale / Bette Plewes and Rieky Stuart

An imperfect process : funding human rights

a case study / Mona Younis

Transformational development as the key to housing rights / Steven Weir

Human rights INGOs, the north-south gap : the challenge of normative and empirical learning / Bonny Ibhawoh

Dilemmas facing NGOs in coalition-occupied Iraq / Lyal Sunga

Human rights in action : supporting human rights work in authoritarian countries / Birgit Lindsnaes, Hans-Otto Sano, and Hatla Thelle

Driving without a map : implementing legal projects in China aimed at improving human rights / Sophia Woodman

Normative compliance and hard bargaining : INGOs and China's response to international human rights criticism / Sun Zhe

Defending economic, social and cultural rights : practical issues faced by an international human rights organization / Kenneth Roth

Thinking through social and economic rights / Neera Chandhoke

Amnesty International and economic, social and cultural rights / by Curt Goering

Moral priorities for international human rights NGOs / Thomas Pogge

The problem of doing good in a world that isn't : reflections on the ethical challenges facing INGOs / Joseph H. Carens

INGOs as collective mobilization of transnational solidarity : implications for human rights work at the United Nations / Jean-Marc Coicaud.

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ISBN:

9780511511233

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