The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights: A Critical Approach to Advocacy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137408332 ISBN 13: 9781137408334

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Synopsis

This volume focuses on challenges to the effective and proper use of human rights and tries to identify, through a series of case studies, strategies and contexts in which human rights advocacy can work in favor of human rights, as well as situations in which such advocacy may backfire, or unintentionally cause harm.

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About the Author

George Andreopoulos, Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, University of Connecticut, USA Surma Das, University of Guelph, Canada Christian Davenport, University of Michigan, USA Amanda M. Fulmer, University of Washington in Seattle, USA Ronald Holzhacker, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Candace Johnson, University of Guelph, Canada Cyanne E. Loyle, West Virginia University, USA Samuel Martínez, University of Connecticut, USA Joel R. Pruce, University of Dayton, USA Susan Waltz, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137408332
• ISBN 13: 9781137408334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Andreopoulos G., Arat Z.