Doing the Rights Thing

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dc.alternateIdentifier10.5130/978-1-86365-423-4
dc.creatorSpry, Damien
dc.date2020-06-17T14:13:10Z
dc.date2020-06-17T14:13:10Z
dc.date2008
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T14:37:59Z
dc.descriptionThis book is about the current state of human rights and the advocacy campaigns to end various abuses to these rights. It challenges views that give authority exclusively to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and reductionist views that take the subsequently framed body of international human rights law as sacrosanct suggesting this this is an incomplete and therefore insufficient view of human rights; that the struggle for human rights exists in historical, political and cultural contexts that may variously challenge or lend support to perspectives on human rights. The author presents three accounts to argue the case: a brief historical overview of human rights; a close reading of a key human rights organisation; and accounts from a recent human rights campaign in Australia. These examples suggest that smaller, nimbler campaign organisations, focused on concrete human rights outcomes, can strategically and successfully employ discourses that are designed to fit with the local political and cultural settings.
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dc.identifierONIX_20200617_9781863654234_10
dc.identifierONIX_20200617_9781863654234_10
dc.identifierOCN: 271305311
dc.identifier1834-2027
dc.identifierhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39669
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/27275
dc.identifierdoi10.5130/978-1-86365-423-4
dc.languageeng
dc.licenseConditionn/a
dc.pages60
dc.placepublicationBroadway
dc.publisherUTS ePRESS
dc.relationUTS Shopfront Series
dc.relationisPublishedByfeb523b3-bdff-4e43-ad50-063a48b87781
dc.resourceTypebook
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.seriesnumber4
dc.sourcedoing-the-rights-thing.pdf
dc.subjectHuman rights Australia
dc.subjectHuman rights campaigns
dc.subjectHuman rights workers
dc.subjectCivil rights
dc.subjectHuman rights movements
dc.subjectHuman rights activism
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands::1MB Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa::1MBF Australia
dc.titleDoing the Rights Thing

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