Demands of justice: the creation of a global human rights practice

"In 1971, human rights violations had begun to intensify in Brazil. Suspected political opponents of the government were being abducted or arrested, brutally tortured, and sometimes killed by agents of the military government. Torture would usually happen quickly, either before or immediately a...

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1. Verfasser: Clark, Ann Marie 1960- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung:"In 1971, human rights violations had begun to intensify in Brazil. Suspected political opponents of the government were being abducted or arrested, brutally tortured, and sometimes killed by agents of the military government. Torture would usually happen quickly, either before or immediately after arrest. In London, Amnesty International's new researcher on Brazil, Tracy Ulltveit-Moe, was receiving blunt feedback from her Brazilian contacts. It was apparent that Amnesty International's existing methods were too slow and too narrowly focused to address the scope and nature of violations in Brazil"--
Demands of Justice draws on original interviews and archival research to show how global appeals for human rights began in the 1970s to expand the boundaries of the global neighborhood and disseminate new arguments about humane concern and law in direct opposition to human rights violations. Turning a justice lens on human rights practice, Clark argues that human rights practice offers tools the enrich three facets of global justice: transnational expressions of simple concern, the political realization of justice through politics and law, and new but still incomplete approaches to social justice. A key case study explores the origins of Amnesty International's well-known Urgent Action alerts for individuals, as well as temporal change in the use of law in such appeals. A second case study, of Oxfam's adoption of rights language, demonstrates the spread of human rights as a primary way of expressing calls for justice in the world
Beschreibung:xx, 206 Seiten Karte
ISBN:9781009098274
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