Making Equal Rights Real (eBook, ePUB)

Taking Effective Action to Overcome Global Challenges
Redaktion: Heymann, Jody

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Making Equal Rights Real brings together leaders from around the world who have been working effectively to increase equal economic and social rights, ranging from rights in the workplace to property ownership and education. The contributors tell the detailed stories of effective approaches to implementing equal rights for racial and ethnic minorities in North America, women in Africa, children in the Middle East and sexual minorities in Asia. They also describe approaches taken around the world to increase equal rights for people living in poverty, for those living with disabilities and for all people seeking the information they need to hold their government accountable for implementing everyone's rights. The book addresses what can be done by policymakers, civil society, non-governmental organizations, lawyers seeking to implement equal rights legislation and advocates working in the community, as well as those developing constitutions and negotiating international agreements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139334204
• Artikelnr.: 53061679

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Conventions and Constitutions: 1. Forging effective international
agreements: lessons from the UN convention on the rights of persons with
disabilities Michael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord; 2. Ensuring equal
rights in constitutions: public participation in drafting economic, social
and cultural rights Jill Cottrell; Part II. Laws and Policies: 3. Putting
economic rights into practice: strategies from labor and employment law
Benjamin Sachs; 4. Promoting equity in economic rights: the case of gender
and land rights Elisa Scalise and Renée Giovarelli; 5. Equalizing social
and cultural rights: approaches to equity across ethnic and racial groups
Grace-Edward Galabuzi; Part III. Budgets and Information: 6. Public access
to information: the keystone to claiming and defending rights Agnès
Callamard; 7. Government budgets and rights implementation: experience from
around the world Ann Blyberg; 8. Budgets, information and participation:
civil society approaches to increasing rights accountability Roberto
Bissio; Part IV. Case Studies of Successful Cross-Cutting Approaches: 9. An
integrated approach to advancing children's rights and participation in
Jordan Samia Bishara-Rizeq, Sirsa A. Qursha and Laila S. Abdul Majeed; 10.
Working within communities to increase gender equity in Zambia Robyn
Wisken; 11. Realizing equal rights in practice for people with disabilities
in Argentina and the United States Mary MacLennan; 12. Guaranteeing legal
rights for sexual and gender minorities in Nepal Alexandra Lesnikowski.