Lawyers Beyond Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lawyers Beyond Borders write by Maria Armoudian. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Lawyers Beyond Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite international conventions and human rights declarations, millions of people have suffered and continue to suffer torture, slavery, or violent deaths, with no remedy or recourse. They have fallen, in essence, “below the law,” outside of law’s protection. Often violated by their own governments, sometimes with support from transnational corporations, or nations benefiting from human rights violations, how can these victims find justice? Lawyers Beyond Borders reveals the inner workings of the advances and retreats in the quest for redress and restoration of human rights for those whom international legal-political systems have failed. The process of justice begins in the US, with a handful of human rights lawyers steeped in the American tradition of advancing civil rights through civil litigation. As the civil rights movement gained traction and an ample supply of lawyers, this small cadre turned their attention toward advancing international human rights, via the US legal system. They sought to build another piece of the rights revolution, this time for survivors of egregious human rights violations in faraway lands. These cases were among the most unlikely to be slated for victory: The abuses occurred abroad; the victims are aliens, usually with few, if any, resources; the perpetrators are politically powerful, resourced, and well connected, often members of governments, militaries, or multinational corporations. The legal and political systems’ structures are mostly stacked against these survivors, many who bear the scars of trauma and terror. Lawyers Beyond Borders is about agency. It is about how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles—political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical—a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.
Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Borders write by Molly Katrina Land. This book was released on 2021-09-16. Beyond Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores new forms of belonging across borders to foster more robust protections for non-citizens. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Activists beyond Borders
Activists beyond Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Activists beyond Borders write by Margaret E. Keck. This book was released on 2014-02-15. Activists beyond Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant impact in human rights, especially in Latin America, and advocacy networks have strongly influenced environmental politics as well. The authors also examine the emergence of an international campaign around violence against women.
Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network
Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network write by Lena Khor. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her innovative study of human rights discourse, Lena Khor takes up the prevailing concern by scholars who charge that the globalization of human rights discourse is becoming yet another form of cultural, legal, and political imperialism imposed from above by an international human rights regime based in the Global North. To counter these charges, she argues for a paradigmatic shift away from human rights as a hegemonic, immutable, and ill-defined entity toward one that recognizes human rights as a social construct comprised of language and of language use. She proposes a new theoretical framework based on a global discourse network of human rights, supporting her model with case studies that examine the words and actions of witnesses to genocide (Paul Rusesabagina) and humanitarian organizations (Doctors Without Borders). She also analyzes the language of texts such as Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. Khor's idea of a globally networked structure of human rights discourse enables actors (textual and human) who tap into or are linked into this rapidly globalizing system of networks to increase their power as speaking subjects and, in so doing, to influence the range of acceptable meanings and practices of human rights in the cultural sphere. Khor’s book is a unique and important contribution to the study of human rights in the humanities that revitalizes viable notions of agency and liberatory network power in fields that have been dominated by negative visions of human capacity and moral action.
Rights Beyond Borders
Rights Beyond Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rights Beyond Borders write by Rosemary Foot. This book was released on 2000. Rights Beyond Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part One: The setting
