Expanding human rights : 21st century norms and governance

Brysk, Alison. (Author). Stohl, Michael, author. 1947- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781785368837 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
x, 280 p. : some ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Cheltenham, United Kingdom : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction - 1. Expanding human rights -- Part II. Expanding actors - 2. A struggle for recognition and rights: expanding LGBT activism - 3. How do global human rights expand?: a case of Japan's Burakumin going global - 4. Indigenous peoples: from objects of protection to subjects of rights -- Part III. Explanding claims - 5. Expanding rights: new frames for violence against women - 6. The human right to water and sanitation: champions and challengers in the first fight for new rights acceptance - 7. Human rights and corporate social responsibility -- Part IV. Expanding mechanisms - 8. Forging alternative routes to norms change: economic rights protagonists - 9. Expanding rights: norm innovation in the European and inter-American courts - 10. Feminist foreign policy as state-led expansion of human rights -- Part V. Expanding responsibilities - 11. Janus-faced: rebel groups and human rights responsibility - 12. Expanding responsibilities: the consequences of World Bank and IMF policies on child welfare - 13. Human rights contraction: sovereignty and denial of the right to food -- Part IV. Conclusion - 14. Conclusions on norms, institituions and processes -- Index.