Fighting for Human Rights (Paperback, annotated edition)

How do you take human rights issues to the street, generate heat around them, and then take them into the parliaments of nations?

In a world that is increasingly disillusioned with formal politics, this book identifies activism as a key means of realising human rights and as a new form of politics. People are no longer prepared to wait for governments and international institutions to act on human rights concerns.

Fighting for Human Rights documents and compares successful high profile campaigns to cancel debt, ban landmines and set up the International Criminal Court as well as emerging campaigns that focus on HIV/Aids, genetic engineering, environmental justice, democratisation and blood diamonds. Motivated by diverse international movements, these campaigns aim to establish international agreements that will become the basis for processes of monitoring and enforcement.

This book asks how has this been done? What strategies have been used? And crucially, how can the formalisation of agreements be prevented from becoming an end in itself, sapping campaigns of their dynamism, but rather a stepping-stone to implementation?

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2016
First published:	2004
Editors:	Paul Gready
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-31292-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
LSN:	0-415-31292-2
Barcode:	9780415312929

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