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Fighting for Human Rights
Edited by Paul Gready, Institute for Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK

Routledge
July 2004: 234x156: 208pp: illus. 7 tables
Hb: 0-415-31291-4: £55.00
Pb: 0-415-31292-2: £15.99

Market: Human Rights, International Relations and Politics

Published by: Taylor and Francis Group

Synopsis:
In a world that is increasingly disillusioned with formal politics, people are no longer prepared to wait for governments and international institutions for act on human rights concerns. This book identifies activism as a key means of realising human rights and as a new form of politics. Fighting for Human Rights documents and compares successful high profile campaigns to cancel debt in the developing world, ban landmines and set up the International Criminal Court as well as emerging campaigns that focus on HIV/AIDS, environmental justice, democratisation and blood diamonds.

Author's previous publications include:
The Power of Writing: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile and Homecoming in Apartheid South Africa (NYP)

Contents:
Introduction Paul Gready
1. Human Rights and Global Civil Society: On the law of unintended effects Richard Falk
2. Debt Cancellation and Civil Society: A case-study of Jubilee 2000 Nick Buxton
3. 'New' humanitarian advocacy?: Civil society and the landmines ban Don Hubert
4. International Law Making of Historic Proportions: Civil society and the International Criminal Court William Pace and Jennifer Schense
5. The Pinochet Case: The catalyst for deepening democracy in Chile? Ann Matear
6. Civil Society and Environmental Justice Carolyn Stephens and Simon Bullock
7. 'The Most Debilitating Discrimination of All': Civil society's campaign for access to treatment for AIDS Bridget Sleap
8. Climb Every Mountain: Civil society and the conflict diamonds campaign Ian Smillie