Expanding human rights : 21st century norms and governance / edited by Alison Brysk (Mellichamp Chair of Global Governance, University of California Santa Barbara, USA), Michael Stohl (Professor of Communication, Political Science and Global Studies and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, USA)

Publisher's description: Expanding human rights gives a comprehensive overview of current human rights issues and the outlook for the future. The contributors present evidence of new methods for enforcing existing rights and new strategies for further development through in-depth analysis of ca...

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Other Authors: Brysk, Alison, 1960- (Editor), Stohl, Michael, 1947- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, United Kingdom ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2017]
Series:Elgar studies in human rights.
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Table of Contents:
  • Expanding human rights / Alison Brysk
  • A struggle for recognition and rights : expanding LGBT activism / Phillip M. Ayoub
  • How do global human rihts expand? : a case of Japan's Burakumin going global / Kiyoteru Tsutsui
  • Indigenous peoples : from objects of protection to subjects of rights / Felipe Gómez Isa
  • Expanding rights : new frames for violence against women / Alison Brysk
  • The human right to water and sanitation : champions and challengers in the fight for new rights acceptance / Madeline Baer
  • Human rights and corporate social responsibility / Michael Stohl, Cynthia Stohl
  • Forging alternative routes to norms change : economic rights protagonists / Shareen Hertel
  • Expanding rights : norm innovation in the European and Inter-American courts / Wayne Sandholtz
  • Feminist foreign policy as state-led expansion of human rights / Valerie M. Hudson
  • Janus-faced : rebel groups and human rights responsibility / Hyeran Jo, Joshua Alley
  • Expanding responsibilities : the consequences of World Bank and IMF policies on child welfare / Clair Apodaca
  • Human rights contraction : sovereignty and denial of the right to food / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
  • Conclusions on norms, institutions and processes / Michael Stohl.