Human rights organizations have grown exponentially across the
globe, particularly in the global South, and the term human rights
is now common parlance among politicians and civil society
activists. As international donors pour money into global human
rights promotion, some governments, scholars, activists, and other
critics fear a subtle, Western-led campaign for political,
economic, and cultural domination. While debates about human rights
are waged in elite circles, what do publics in the global South
think about human rights ideas and the organizations that promote
them? Drawing on large-scale public opinion surveys and interview
with human rights practioners in India, Mexico, Morocco, and
Nigeria, Taking Root finds that most people are in fact broadly
supportive of human rights discourse, trust local human rights
groups, and do not view human rights as a tool of foreign powers.
Pro-human rights constituencies also tend to be highly skeptical of
the U.S. government, multinational corporations, and their own
governments. However, this general public support for human rights
isn't grounded in strong commitments of public engagement, money,
or local ties to the human rights sector. Publics in the global
South do donate to charitable causes and organizations, but rarely
give to local rights groups. Rights organizations instead seek aid
from foreign sources, an increasingly untenable strategy as foreign
aid to civil society declines. The book also describes the complex
relations between religiosity and support for human rights as faith
communities, worldviews, and traditions strongly influence the
public's views of human rights, but often in contradictory ways. As
the most informative and comprehensive account available of public
perceptions of human rights across several regions of the world,
Taking Root will challenge a number of accepted truths held by
human rights supporters and skeptics alike.
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