Fighting for Human Rights

Gready, Paul

ISBN 10: 0415312922 / ISBN 13: 9780415312929

Published by Routledge, Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A., 2004

About this Item

Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2004. 192 pp. This book identifies civil society activism as a key means of realising human rights and as a new form of politics. Entire book is clean, unmarked, no creases, a lovely copy. Trade Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fighting for Human Rights
• Publisher: Routledge, Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415312922
• ISBN 13: 9780415312929
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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

Fighting for Human Rights documents and compares successful high profile campaigns to cancel debt in the developing world, ban landmines and set up the International Criminal Court as well as emerging campaigns that focus on HIV/AIDS, environmental justice, democratization and blood diamonds.

About the Author

Paul Gready is a Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth. His practical experience relating to human rights includes working for the research department of Amnesty International's International Secretariat and a number of civil liberties organisations in South Africa, as well as consultancies for institutions including the British Medical Association and the South African Police Service.