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NGOs and the Struggle for Human Rights in Europe (Hardcover)
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NGOs and the Struggle for Human Rights in Europe (Hardcover)
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This publication provides a fresh perspective on the litigation of
the European Court of Human Rights by focusing upon the role that
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play in it. The inspiration
for this work was the growing literature that points to human
rights as the outcome of political and social struggles. The role
that NGOs play in these struggles is well-documented in the context
of other international and regional human rights tribunals, but has
been less widely written about in the context of the European Court
of Human Rights. The Court is typically subject to legalistic, as
opposed to socio-political, scrutiny. In this book, the Court's
litigation is re-cast as a site where politically motivated actors
attempt to affect the meaning that is given to the language of the
European Convention on Human Rights and to use the Convention as a
mechanism that can contribute to social change. For the purposes of
this research, a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research
techniques is adopted. These methods facilitate the author's desire
to obtain both a de-centered perspective of the Court's functions
and a systematic picture of the scale of NGO involvement in the
Court's litigation. The core of this work is primarily based on
data obtained from a sample of cases in which the Court had
delivered judgment, and a plethora of associated materials,
including extensive interviews with NGOs that were involved in
those cases. Ultimately, this book challenges the idea that the
litigation of the Court is bound to the idea of achieving
individual justice and highlights the meaningful impact that NGOs
have on certain important sections of the Court's litigation.
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