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024 7 _a10.9783/9780812203936
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812203936
035 _a(DE-B1597)449416
035 _a(OCoLC)859162272
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aPOL035010
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082 0 4 _a323.06/0676
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 0 _aHuman Rights NGOs in East Africa :
_bPolitical and Normative Tensions /
_ced. by Makau Mutua.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource (400 p.) :
_b1 illus.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
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490 0 _aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tIntroduction --
_tPART I. Defining Challenges to Civil Society in East Africa --
_tCHAPTER ONE. Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges --
_tCHAPTER TWO. To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya --
_tPART II. Interrogating NGO Mandates: Gender, Sexuality, and ESC Rights --
_tCHAPTER THREE. Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective --
_tCHAPTER FIVE. Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity --
_tCHAPTER SIX. Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State --
_tPART III. Donors and Grantees: Convergences and Divergences --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN. Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities --
_tCHAPTER EIGHT. Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya --
_tPART IV. State/Civil Society Relations --
_tCHAPTER NINE. State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change --
_tCHAPTER TEN. Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs --
_tPART FIVE. NGO Institutional Case Studies --
_tCHAPTER ELEVEN. The Mrican Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-Mrican Organizing in Human Rights --
_tCHAPTER TWELVE. Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs --
_tPART VI. South/South and North/South NGO Relations --
_tCHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy --
_tCHAPTER FOURTEEN. Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa --
_tConclusion: Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Mrica --
_tNOTES --
_tCONTRIBUTORS --
_tINDEX --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHuman rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are by definition not part of the state. Rather, they are an element of civil society, the strands of the fabric of organized life in countries, and crucial to the prospect of political democracy. Civil society is a very recent phenomenon in East African nations, where authoritarian regimes have prevailed and human rights watchdogs have had a critical role to play. While the state remains one of the major challenges to human rights efforts in the countries of the region, other problems that are internal to the human rights movement are also of a serious nature, and they are many: What are the social bases of the human rights enterprise in transitional societies? What mandate can human rights NGOs claim, and in whose name do they operate?Human Rights NGOs in East Africa critically explores the anatomy of the human rights movement in the East African region, examining its origins, challenges, and emergent themes in the context of political transitions. 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. The book brings together the most celebrated human rights thinkers in East Africa, enriched by contributions from their colleagues in South Africa and the United States.To date, very little has been written about the struggles and accomplishments of civil society in the nations of East Africa. This book will fill that gap and prove to be an invaluable tool for understanding and teaching about human rights in this complex and vital part of the world.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aCivil society
_zAfrica, Eastern.
650 0 _aDemocracy
_zAfrica, Eastern.
650 0 _aDemocratization
_zAfrica, Eastern.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_zAfrica, Eastern.
650 0 _aNon-governmental organizations
_zAfrica, Eastern.
650 4 _aHuman Rights.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
_2bisacsh
653 _a.
653 _aAfrican Studies.
653 _aAsian Studies.
653 _aHuman Rights.
653 _aLaw.
653 _aMiddle Eastern Studies.
653 _aPolitical Science.
700 1 _aBurnham, Margaret A.
_eautore
700 1 _aGupta, Shaila
_eautore
700 1 _aKanyinga, Karuti
_eautore
700 1 _aKellman, Alycia
_eautore
700 1 _aMiano, J. Wanjiku
_eautore
700 1 _aMurungi, Betty K.
_eautore
700 1 _aMuteshi, Jacinta K.
_eautore
700 1 _aMutua, Makau
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aMutunga, Willy
_eautore
700 1 _aNabudere, Dani W.
_eautore
700 1 _aNgondi-Houghton, Connie
_eautore
700 1 _aOloka-Onyango, Joe
_eautore
700 1 _aPeter, Chris Maina
_eautore
700 1 _aSewanyana, Livingstone
_eautore
700 1 _aTamale, Sylvia
_eautore
700 1 _aWanyeki, L. Muthoni
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203936
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203936
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