Doing the rights thing : approaches to human rights and campaigning

• Tác giả: Damien Spry
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1863654234
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 361.7 Private action
• Thông tin xuất bản: UTS ePRESS 2008
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (iii, 54 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 198961
• Chủ đề: 1. Civil rights--Australia; 2. Human rights--Australia; 3. Human rights movements--Australia; 4. Human rights workers--Australia; 5. Political participation--Australia; 6. Pressure groups--Australia

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

 "This book is about the current state of human rights and the advocacy campaigns to end various abuses to these rights. It challenges views that give authority exclusively to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and reductionist views that take the subsequently framed body of international human rights law as sacrosanct suggesting this this is an incomplete and therefore insufficient view of human rights
  that the struggle for human rights exists in historical, political and cultural contexts that may variously challenge or lend support to perspectives on human rights. The author presents three accounts to argue the case: a brief historical overview of human rights
  a close reading of a key human rights organisation
  and accounts from a recent human rights campaign in Australia. These examples suggest that smaller, nimbler campaign organisations, focused on concrete human rights outcomes, can strategically and successfully employ discourses that are designed to fit with the local political and cultural settings."--Publisher's website.