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New Rights Advocacy Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs

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ISBN-10: 1589012046

ISBN-13: 9781589012042

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Paul J. Nelson, Ellen Dorsey

List price: $32.95
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After World War II dozens of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. Some focused on protecting human rights; some were dedicated to development, aimed at satisfying basic economic needs. Both approaches had distinctive methods, missions, and emphases. In the 1980s and 90s, however, the dividing line began to blur. In the first book to track the growing intersection and even overlap of human rights and development NGOs, Paul Nelson and Ellen Dorsey introduce a concept they call "new rights advocacy." New rights advocacy has at its core three main trends: the embrace of human rights-based…    
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Book details

List price: $32.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 4/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
New Rights Advocacy
Organizational Fields and the Division of Human Rights and Development
The New Rights Advocacy
International System Change and the NGO Sectors
Organizations, Their Environments, and Power
The Emergence of NGO Cooperation in the 1980s and 1990s
Implications of the New Rights Advocacy
Tracking the Origins
Transforming the Human Rights Movement: Human Rights NGOs Embrace ESC Rights
The Emerging Movement for ESC Rights
Traditional International Human Rights NGOs and ESC Rights
New NGOs and the Global Network for ESC Rights
Debating ESC Rights Advocacy
Impact of the New Movement for ESC Rights
NGOs and the Development Industry: Toward a Rights-Based Approach?
Introduction
Organizations, Politics, and the Meaning of Rights-Based Approaches
The Development Field and the Call for Rights-Based Approaches
Crisis of Development, Promise of Human Rights
Development Agencies and the Tentative Embrace of Rights-Based Development
Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals
Durability and Limits, Constraints and Resistance
Alliances and Hybrids
Local and Global Cooperation Sets the Stage, 1980s-1990s
Converging Agendas, New Organizations, Shared Initiatives, Methods, and Identities
Creating Organizational Hybrids
Alliances, Hybrids, and NGO Politics
Human Rights and Development: What Is New? Will It Last?
What Is New?
Are the Sectors Converging?
Durability
Impact on Outcomes
Bibliography
Index