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

Contributor(s): Bell, Daniel (Daniel A.), 1964- | Coicaud, Jean-Marc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: xiv, 320 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521865662 (hardback); 9780521865661 (hardback); 0521684498 (pbk.); 9780521684491 (pbk.).Subject(s): Non-governmental organizations | Human rights | Political ethicsOnline resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Book review (H-Net)
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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