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Human Rights Strategies
Benefits and Drawbacks
9781035314133 Edward Elgar Publishing
This book explores how various strategies have been developed over time to address different human rights objectives. It provides a critical examination of the benefits and drawbacks of different human rights strategies, and explores the cultural dimension; considering how particular strategies may be viewed and deployed differently in contemporary human rights practice.
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This book explores how various strategies have been developed over time to address different human rights objectives. It provides a critical examination of the benefits and drawbacks of different human rights strategies, and explores the cultural dimension; considering how particular strategies may be viewed and deployed differently in contemporary human rights practice.
An international team of expert legal scholars focus on three key human rights strategies: naming and shaming, strategic litigation and information politics. By analysing these strategies, they explain their respective advantages, pitfalls and idiosyncrasies. Chapters highlight that whilst these strategies may aid in furthering human rights law and protecting individuals from human rights violations, any strategy may have the potential for unintended negative consequences; sometimes at the expense of certain rights or certain individuals. Ultimately, the book highlights that strategies should not overshadow the essence of human rights, but are simply a means of communicating a message.
Human Rights Strategies is a fundamental resource for legal scholars and students with a particular interest in human rights and public international law. Legal practitioners, policymakers and NGOs in the human rights sphere will also find this to be a useful reference point.
An international team of expert legal scholars focus on three key human rights strategies: naming and shaming, strategic litigation and information politics. By analysing these strategies, they explain their respective advantages, pitfalls and idiosyncrasies. Chapters highlight that whilst these strategies may aid in furthering human rights law and protecting individuals from human rights violations, any strategy may have the potential for unintended negative consequences; sometimes at the expense of certain rights or certain individuals. Ultimately, the book highlights that strategies should not overshadow the essence of human rights, but are simply a means of communicating a message.
Human Rights Strategies is a fundamental resource for legal scholars and students with a particular interest in human rights and public international law. Legal practitioners, policymakers and NGOs in the human rights sphere will also find this to be a useful reference point.
Critical Acclaim
‘This book is an important addition to already existing literature on human rights strategies. Its strong points being that the strategies are discussed by experts in the field, that views from the global south are included, and that in addition to benefits, also drawbacks and pitfalls are pointed out, which is very useful for anyone who wishes to learn more about the subject.’
– Theodoor van Boven, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
‘This is a valuable, pioneering work that opens up a much needed discussion of human rights strategies which deal with the immense human rights challenges of our time. It is a foundational and particularly insightful book because it is written by people with experiences on the ground, from different parts of the world.’
– Bertrand Ramcharan, University of Dundee, Scotland
– Theodoor van Boven, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
‘This is a valuable, pioneering work that opens up a much needed discussion of human rights strategies which deal with the immense human rights challenges of our time. It is a foundational and particularly insightful book because it is written by people with experiences on the ground, from different parts of the world.’
– Bertrand Ramcharan, University of Dundee, Scotland
