Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice
globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on
anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world,
this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups
and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of
local settings, often differently from those imagined by human
rights law itself. The case studies reveal the contradictions and
ambiguities of human rights approaches to various forms of
violence. They show that this openness is not a failure of
universal human rights as a coherent legal or ethical framework but
an essential element in the development of living and organic ideas
of human rights in context. Studying human rights in practice means
examining the channels of communication and institutional
structures that mediate between global ideas and local situations.
Suitable for use on inter-disciplinary courses globally.
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