Ethics in action: The ethical challenges of international human rights nongovernmental organizations

TY - BOOK

T1 - Ethics in action

T2 - The ethical challenges of international human rights nongovernmental organizations

AU - Bell, Daniel A.

AU - Coicaud, Jean Marc

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Cambridge University Press 2007 and Cambridge University Press, 2009.

PY - 2006/1/1

Y1 - 2006/1/1

N2 - This book is the product of a multiyear dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) sponsored by the United Nations University, Tokyo, and the City University of Hong Kong. It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful Northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on the activities of human rights INGOs; and the tension between expanding organization mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it for the sake of focusing on more immediate and clearly identifiable violations of civil and political rights. Each section contains contributions from both theorists and practitioners of human rights

AB - This book is the product of a multiyear dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) sponsored by the United Nations University, Tokyo, and the City University of Hong Kong. It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful Northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on the activities of human rights INGOs; and the tension between expanding organization mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it for the sake of focusing on more immediate and clearly identifiable violations of civil and political rights. Each section contains contributions from both theorists and practitioners of human rights

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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511233

DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511233

M3 - Book

SN - 9780521865661

BT - Ethics in action

PB - Cambridge University Press

ER -