Daniel A. Bell is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has held fellowships at Stanford's Center for Advanced study in the Behavioral Sciences and Princeton University Center of Human Values. His books include Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context (Princeton University Press 2006), East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia (Princeton University Press 2000) and Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford University Press 1993).
Jean-Marc Coicaud heads the UNU Office at the United Nations in New York. Dr Coicaud was Senior Academic Officer in the Peace and Governance Programme at UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr Boutros Boutros-Ghali. A former fellow at Harvard University Center for International Affairs and Harvard Law School, Coicaud has held appointments as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee).
Introduction: reflection on dialogues between practitioners and theorists
of human rights Daniel A. Bell; Part I. Northern INGOs and Southern Aid
Recipients: The Challenge of Unequal Power: 1. The pornography of poverty:
a cautionary fundraising tale Bette Plewes; 2. An imperfect process:
funding human rights - a case study Mona Younis; 3. Transformational
development as the key to housing rights Steven Weir; 4. Human rights
INGOs, the North/South Gap: the challenge of normative and empirical
learning Bonny Ibhawoh; Part II. INGOs and Governments: The Challenge of
Dealing with States that Restrict the Activities of INGOs: 5. Dilemmas
facing INGOs in coalition-occupied Iraq Lyal Sunga; 6. Human rights in
action: supporting human rights work in authoritarian countries Birgit
Lindsnaes, Hans-Otto Sano and Hatla Thelle; 7. Driving without a map:
implementing legal projects in China aimed at improving human rights Sophia
Woodman; 8. Normative compliance and hard bargaining: China's strategies
and tactics in response to International Human Rights criticism Sun Zhe;
Part III. INGOs and Economic Rights: The Challenge of Dealing with Global
Poverty: 9. Defending economic, social and cultural rights: practical
issues faced by an International Human Rights Organization Kenneth Roth;
10. Thinking through social and economic rights Neera Chandhoke; 11.
Amnesty International and economic, social and cultural rights Curt
Goering; 12. Moral priorities for International Human Rights NGOs Thomas W.
Pogge; 13. The problem of doing good in a world that isn't: reflections on
the ethical challenges facing INGOs Joseph H. Carens; Conclusion:
International NGOs as collective mobilization of transnational solidarity:
implications for human rights at the United Nations Jean-Marc Coicaud.
