Books

Pub Date
2014
ISBN
9781137408334
Page Count
244

The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights

A Critical Approach to Advocacy

By George Andreopoulos (ed) Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat (ed)
561
Human Rights

Palgrave Macmillan US

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.