CIAO DATE: 10/2010
April 2008
Table of Contents
New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs
Paul J. Nelson, Ellen Dorsey
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
1
The 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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Human Rights and Development: What Is New? Will It Last?
What Is New?
Are the Sectors Converging
Durability
Impact on Outcomes
Bibliography
Index
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