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Title Ethics in action [electronic resource] : the ethical challenges of international human rights nongovernmental organizations / edited by Daniel A. Bell, Jean-Marc Coicaud.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Description xiv, 320 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The pornography of poverty : a cautionary fundraising tale / Bette Plewes and Rieky Stuart -- An imperfect process : funding human rights--a case study / Mona Younis -- Transformational development as the key to housing rights / Steven Weir -- Human rights INGOs, the north-south gap : the challenge of normative and empirical learning / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Dilemmas facing INGOs in coalition-occupied Iraq / Lyal Sunga -- Human rights in action : supporting human rights work in authoritarian countries / Birgit Lindsnaes, Hans-Otto Sano, and Hatla Thelle -- Driving without a map : implementing legal projects in China aimed at improving human rights / Sophia Woodman -- Normative compliance and hard bargaining : China's strategies and tactics in response to international human rights criticism / Sun Zhe -- Defending economic, social and cultural rights : practical issues faced by an international human rights organization / Kenneth Roth -- Thinking through social and economic rights / Neera Chandhoke -- Amnesty International and economic, social and cultural rights / by Curt Goering -- Moral priorities for international human rights NGOs / Thomas W. Pogge -- The problem of doing good in a world that isn't : reflections on the ethical challenges facing INGOs / Joseph H. Carens -- Conclusion: International NGOs as collective mobilization of transnational solidarity : implications for human rights work at the United Nations / Jean-Marc Coicaud.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Non-governmental organizations.
Human rights.
Political ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bell, Daniel (Daniel A.), 1964-
Coicaud, Jean-Marc.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0521865662 (hardback)
9780521865661 (hardback)
0521684498 (pbk.)
9780521684491 (pbk.)

 
    
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