Re-Framing Human Rights Advocacy: The Rise of Economic Rights

Hertel, Shareen

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“…74 Since the late 1990s, the rights in ICESCR have seen a rapid normative development, accompanied by strong global mobilisation and advocacy. 75 The CESCR, the treaty's monitoring body consisting of 18 independent experts, is authorised to adopt interpretations of the treaty's norms. These interpretations are non-binding in legal terms, but the so-called general comments have evolved into authoritative treaty interpretations of the Covenant.…”

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The power of interpersonal relationships: A socio-legal approach to international institutions and human rights advocacy

Reiners

2023

Rev. Int. Stud.

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This article further develops and illustrates the argument that relationships between individuals help to explain the success of human rights advocacy in international institutions. Drawing from advocacy theory and socio-legal studies, I shift the attention from collective forms of advocacy to the importance of interpersonal relationships of advocates with individuals in international institutions to influence the development of human rights. I introduce a framework consisting of three analytical steps – mapping the key actors in a network, process-tracing, and biographical research – and apply the framework to three cases of norm development by a United Nations human rights treaty body. My findings highlight the power of interpersonal relationships for the making of human rights, and they inform scholarship on transnational elites, human rights advocacy, and the politics of international law.

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The power of interpersonal relationships: A socio-legal approach to international institutions and human rights advocacy

Reiners

2023

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“…Though the Convenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was passed in 1966, for example, human rights organizations were initially associated with a focus on civil and political rights (de Waal 2003). Amnesty International, for example, started to embrace reporting on economic and social rights in the early 2000s (Goering 2006;Hertel 2017).…”

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Prioritization in human rights NGOs: The role of intra-organizational units of planning

Krause

2019

Journal of Human Rights

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Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with program managers in nineteen Western international human rights organizations, this article examines how human rights organizations make decisions about how to allocate resources and how to manage their commitments to specific causes, specific people, and specific areas. It argues that organizational routines shape the allocation of resources relatively independently of other factors and it pays particular attention to the role played by intra-organizational "units" of work and planning. Units of work and planning function as candidates for the allocation of resources within organizations. Resources are not allocated directly to issues or causes but rather are distributed on the one hand among a set of range of practices, such as reports and campaigns, and ways of responding, which are considered legitimate, and on the other hand among the thematic and geographical units, which structure human rights organizations. The article concludes by discussing some factors that play a role in the selection among these units. As human rights workers consider where their organizations can make a difference, other organizations and conditions for their work come into view, levers matter, and the way making a difference can be demonstrated plays a role. Human rights apply to every individual across the world, and different rights, such as the right to freedom of expression, or the right to education, are in principle equally valid and important. At the same time, human rights organizations work with limited resources and it is clear that they are not able to report on or otherwise respond to every right, rights holder, or violation. In this context, this article examines empirically how Western international human rights organizations make decisions about how to allocate resources, and how to manage their commitments to specific causes, specific people, and specific territorial units. The article draws on 40 in-depth interviews with program staff in a range of Western international human rights organizations, on organizations' reports, and on other publicly available information. Western international human rights organizations-what de Waal (2003) has called "secondary human rights organizations"-are only one site for investigating "human rights". Human rights claims circulate in and through different world regions and different institutional sites (Merry

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Does local resistance impact the transnational normative environment? The case of female genital mutilation (FGM)

Öztığ

2022

Health Care for Women International

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Re-Framing Human Rights Advocacy: The Rise of Economic Rights

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

The power of interpersonal relationships: A socio-legal approach to international institutions and human rights advocacy

The power of interpersonal relationships: A socio-legal approach to international institutions and human rights advocacy

Prioritization in human rights NGOs: The role of intra-organizational units of planning

Does local resistance impact the transnational normative environment? The case of female genital mutilation (FGM)

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