Human Rights Strategies

Benefits and Drawbacks

AvIngrid Westendorp

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien The Association of Human Rights Institutes series

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Beskrivning

This book explores how various strategies have been developed over time to address different human rights objectives. It provides a critical examination of the benefits and drawbacks of different human rights strategies, and explores the cultural dimension; considering how particular strategies may be viewed and deployed differently in contemporary human rights practice.An international team of expert legal scholars focus on three key human rights strategies: naming and shaming, strategic litigation and information politics. By analysing these strategies, they explain their respective advantages, pitfalls and idiosyncrasies. Chapters highlight that whilst these strategies may aid in furthering human rights law and protecting individuals from human rights violations, any strategy may have the potential for unintended negative consequences; sometimes at the expense of certain rights or certain individuals. Ultimately, the book highlights that strategies should not overshadow the essence of human rights, but are simply a means of communicating a message.Human Rights Strategies is a fundamental resource for legal scholars and students with a particular interest in human rights and public international law. Legal practitioners, policymakers and NGOs in the human rights sphere will also find this to be a useful reference point.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-08
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035314133

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Mer om författaren

Edited by Ingrid Westendorp, Senior Lecturer/Researcher, International Law and Woman and Law, Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Recensioner i media

‘This book is an important addition to already existing literature on human rights strategies. Its strong points being that the strategies are discussed by experts in the field, that views from the global south are included, and that in addition to benefits, also drawbacks and pitfalls are pointed out, which is very useful for anyone who wishes to learn more about the subject.’

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPreface viiList of contributors ixPART I POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS OFSTRATEGIES1 Introduction to human rights strategies 17Ingrid Westendorp2. The deliberative deficit of human rights strategies:conceptual problems and practical implications 25Gustavo Arosemena3 Finding its voice: the OHCHR in the digital age; OHCHR,human rights violations, social media and press releases 44Conall Mallory and Rhona SmithPART II STRATEGIC LITIGATION4 Disability cause lawyering at the European Court ofHuman Rights: lessons from strategic litigation on theright to political participation 78János Fiala-Butora, Matthew S. Smith and Michael Ashley Stein5. Mobilising the European Social Charter’s collectivecomplaints procedure for legal and social change 108Nikolaos A. Papadopoulos6 Legal mobilisation and state incapacity – successes andchallenges in the struggle for scholar transport in South Africa 134Nurina Ally, Demichelle Petherbridge and Tarryn Cooper-Bell7. Sámi legal mobilisation to protect indigenous land rightsin Sweden: 160Peter Johansson and Johan Karlsson SchafferPART III INFORMATION POLITICS8 The Bangladesh government’s response to the humanrights reports of INGOs: an example of ‘informationpolitics’ from the Global South 188Jobair Alam, Naimul Hasan and Tasnim Nusrat Reza9 Emancipation through human rights practice: newepistemology from rural West Bengal 211Saori Murakami10 Can talking about dignity support the growth of a humanrights culture? A view from Scotland 233Elaine Webster