Clifford Bob is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University and is the author of The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism.

"A tremendously important book. At its core, it is much more than an assessment of the efficacy and difficulties associated with employing a rights-based approach or framework to a wide range of grievances. Rather, it is a book about the possible, a book about the individuals and organizations who have refused to be satisfied with the status quo, and who have had the courage to try to convince others to see rights violations in places where they never saw them before. From this, we should take inspiration."-H-Net "The International Struggle for New Human Rights moves beyond the assumption that only the most in need, oppressed, and marginalized groups have the ability to internationalize their grievances through civil society organizing. Specifically, the volume highlights groups that have recently and successfully utilized human rights framing and rhetoric to gain international support for their cause and traces the why and how of this process."-Human Rights Quarterly

• 1. Introduction: Fighting for New Rights-Clifford Bob2. Orphaned Again? Children Born of Wartime Rape as a Nonissue for the Human Rights Movement-R. Charli Carpenter3. "Dalit Rights Are Human Rights": Untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian State-Clifford Bob4. Applying the Gatekeeper Model of Human Rights Activism: The U.S.-Based Movement for LGBT Rights-Julie Mertus5. From Resistance to Receptivity: Transforming the HIV/AIDS Crisis into a Human Rights Issue-Jeremy Youde6. Disability Rights and the Human Rights Mainstream: Reluctant Gate-Crashers?-Janet E. Lord7. New Rights for Private Wrongs: Female Genital Mutilation and Global Framing Dialogues-Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk8. Economic Rights and Extreme Poverty: Moving Toward Subsistence-Daniel Chong9. Local Claims, International Standards, and the Human Right to Water-Paul J. NelsonNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

Clifford Bob is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University and is the author of The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism.

"A tremendously important book. At its core, it is much more than an assessment of the efficacy and difficulties associated with employing a rights-based approach or framework to a wide range of grievances. Rather, it is a book about the possible, a book about the individuals and organizations who have refused to be satisfied with the status quo, and who have had the courage to try to convince others to see rights violations in places where they never saw them before. From this, we should take inspiration."-H-Net "The International Struggle for New Human Rights moves beyond the assumption that only the most in need, oppressed, and marginalized groups have the ability to internationalize their grievances through civil society organizing. Specifically, the volume highlights groups that have recently and successfully utilized human rights framing and rhetoric to gain international support for their cause and traces the why and how of this process."-Human Rights Quarterly

• 1. Introduction: Fighting for New Rights-Clifford Bob2. Orphaned Again? Children Born of Wartime Rape as a Nonissue for the Human Rights Movement-R. Charli Carpenter3. "Dalit Rights Are Human Rights": Untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian State-Clifford Bob4. Applying the Gatekeeper Model of Human Rights Activism: The U.S.-Based Movement for LGBT Rights-Julie Mertus5. From Resistance to Receptivity: Transforming the HIV/AIDS Crisis into a Human Rights Issue-Jeremy Youde6. Disability Rights and the Human Rights Mainstream: Reluctant Gate-Crashers?-Janet E. Lord7. New Rights for Private Wrongs: Female Genital Mutilation and Global Framing Dialogues-Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk8. Economic Rights and Extreme Poverty: Moving Toward Subsistence-Daniel Chong9. Local Claims, International Standards, and the Human Right to Water-Paul J. NelsonNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

Clifford Bob is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University and is the author of The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism.

"A tremendously important book. At its core, it is much more than an assessment of the efficacy and difficulties associated with employing a rights-based approach or framework to a wide range of grievances. Rather, it is a book about the possible, a book about the individuals and organizations who have refused to be satisfied with the status quo, and who have had the courage to try to convince others to see rights violations in places where they never saw them before. From this, we should take inspiration."-H-Net "The International Struggle for New Human Rights moves beyond the assumption that only the most in need, oppressed, and marginalized groups have the ability to internationalize their grievances through civil society organizing. Specifically, the volume highlights groups that have recently and successfully utilized human rights framing and rhetoric to gain international support for their cause and traces the why and how of this process."-Human Rights Quarterly

• 1. Introduction: Fighting for New Rights-Clifford Bob2. Orphaned Again? Children Born of Wartime Rape as a Nonissue for the Human Rights Movement-R. Charli Carpenter3. "Dalit Rights Are Human Rights": Untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian State-Clifford Bob4. Applying the Gatekeeper Model of Human Rights Activism: The U.S.-Based Movement for LGBT Rights-Julie Mertus5. From Resistance to Receptivity: Transforming the HIV/AIDS Crisis into a Human Rights Issue-Jeremy Youde6. Disability Rights and the Human Rights Mainstream: Reluctant Gate-Crashers?-Janet E. Lord7. New Rights for Private Wrongs: Female Genital Mutilation and Global Framing Dialogues-Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk8. Economic Rights and Extreme Poverty: Moving Toward Subsistence-Daniel Chong9. Local Claims, International Standards, and the Human Right to Water-Paul J. NelsonNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments