Chapter 1: Introduction: contesting human rights – pathways of change
Category:
Monograph Chapter
Published:
25 Jan 2019
Page Range:
1–11
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972864.00008
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This project identifies fundamental changes in pathways to the realization of rights. We trace the balance between dynamics of diffusion and innovation, the efficacy of norm promotion in advocacy campaigns, multi-level contests and translation of rights frames, and the growth of global responsibilities. Our authors chart new mechanisms in the human rights regime via horizontal peer review, regional courts, national Constitutions, and urban movements. But these developments are constrained by backlash in the security of human rights defenders, contradictions in the role of NGOs, and decline in human rights foreign policy.
Cover Contesting Human Rights
Contesting Human Rights
Edited by
Alison Brysk
and
Michael Stohl
Monograph Book
Published:
25 Jan 2019
Print ISBN:
9781788972857
eISBN:
9781788972864
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972864
Pages:
c 256
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
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