Ethics in Action (eBook, PDF)

The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations
Redaktion: Bell, Daniel A.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511345784
• Artikelnr.: 38193641

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.