Format:
Online-Ressource (vii, 390 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0812220498
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0812241126
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9780812203936
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9780812220490
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9780812241129
Series Statement:
Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Content:
Critically explores the anatomy of the human rights movement in East Africa, examining its origins, challenges, and emergent themes in the context of political transitions in the region. In particular, the book seeks to understand the political and normative challenges that face this young but vibrant civil society in the vortex of globalization.
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- lntroduction -- PART I: Defining Challenges to Civil Society in East Africa -- CHAPTER ONE Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges -- CHAPTER TWO To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya -- PART II: Interrogating NGO Mandates: Gender, Sexuality, and ESC Rights -- CHAPTER THREE Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs -- CHAPTER FOUR NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective -- CHAPTER FIVE Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity -- CHAPTER SIX Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State -- PART III: Donors and Grantees: Convergences and Divergences -- CHAPTER SEVEN Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities -- CHAPTER EIGHT Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya -- PART IV: State/Civil Society Relations -- CHAPTER NINE State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change -- CHAPTER TEN Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs -- PART V: NGO Institutional Case Studies -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The African Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-African Organizing in Human Rights -- CHAPTER TWELVE Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs -- PART VI: South/South and North/South NGO Relations -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa -- CONCLUSION Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Africa -- NOTES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-365) and index
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""lntroduction""; ""PART I: Defining Challenges to Civil Society in East Africa""; ""CHAPTER ONE Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges""; ""CHAPTER TWO To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya""; ""PART II: Interrogating NGO Mandates: Gender, Sexuality, and ESC Rights""; ""CHAPTER THREE Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs""; ""CHAPTER FOUR NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective""
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""CHAPTER FIVE Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity""""CHAPTER SIX Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State""; ""PART III: Donors and Grantees: Convergences and Divergences""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya""; ""PART IV: State/Civil Society Relations""; ""CHAPTER NINE State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change""
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""CHAPTER TEN Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs""""PART V: NGO Institutional Case Studies""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN The African Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-African Organizing in Human Rights""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs""; ""PART VI: South/South and North/South NGO Relations""; ""CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy""; ""CHAPTER FOURTEEN Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa""
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""CONCLUSION Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Africa""""NOTES""; ""LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812241129
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Human Rights NGOs in East Africa : Political and Normative Tensions
Language:
English
