In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have
routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses.
Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS
patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their
interests by advancing new human rights norms before the United
Nations and other international bodies. Often, these claims have
met strong resistance from governments and corporations. More
surprisingly, even apparent allies, such as Amnesty International,
Human Rights Watch, and other nongovernmental organizations, have
voiced misgivings, arguing that rights "proliferation" will weaken
efforts to protect their traditional concerns: civil and political
rights.Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights
issues while others are not? How do local activists transform
long-standing problems into universal rights claims? When and why
do human rights groups, governments, and international
organizations endorse new rights? "The International Struggle for
New Human Rights" is the first book to address these
issues.Focusing on activists who advance new rights, the book
introduces a framework for understanding critical strategies and
conflicts involved in the struggle to persuade the human rights
movement to move beyond traditional problems and embrace pressing
new ones.Essays in the volume consider rights activism by such
groups as the South Asian Dalits, sexual minorities, and children
of wartime rape victims, while others explore new issues such as
health rights, economic rights, and the right to water. Examining
both the successes and failures of such campaigns, The
"International Struggle for New Human Rights" will be a key
resource not only for scholars but also for those on the front
lines of human rights work.
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