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This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach
to address the question of whether and how international attention
can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in
authoritarian settings. It examines the untold origin story of the
‘human rights defender’ term and its uptake among international
advocacy organizations, which coalesced with the rise of a theory
of human rights change centered around the support for local
actors. Rich with analyses of original qualitative and quantitative
data, the author spells out this theory of change and tests its
assumptions in two case studies: the individual casework of the UN
special procedures, and the case of Tunisia under Ben Ali. This
book is of key interest to scholars and students of human rights,
of the United Nations, and more broadly of international relations
and politics in general, and to practitioners working with human
rights defenders at risk.
This book provides empirically grounded insights into the causes,
trajectories, and effects of a severe decline in university
autonomy and the relationship to other dimensions of academic
freedom by comparing in-depth country studies and evidence from a
new global timeseries dataset. Drawing attention to ongoing
discussions on standards for monitoring and assessment of academic
freedom at regional and international organizations, this book
identifies a need for clearer standards on academic freedom and a
human rights-based definition of university autonomy. Further, the
book calls for accompanying international oversight and the
inclusion of criteria related to academic freedom in international
university rankings. Five expert-authored case studies on academic
freedom from diverse nations (Bangladesh, Mozambique, India,
Poland, and Turkey) are included in the volume. Drawing on both
qualitative and quantitative evidence, the book offers a unique and
timely contribution to the field and will be of great interest to
scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of higher
education, human rights, political science and public policy. This
Open Access book is available at www.taylorfrancis.com, and has
been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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