Daniel P L Chong

Freedom from Poverty

NGOs and Human Rights PRAXIS

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Freedom from Poverty examines how today's non-governmental organizations are modifying human rights practices and reshaping the political landscape by taking up the cause of subsistence rights. Rights are being used as legal, moral, and political tools in the struggle to provide food, housing, and healthcare to those in need.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780812242522
• ISBN-10: 0812242521
• Artikelnr.: 28522479

Autorenporträt

Daniel P.L. Chong

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. NGOs and Freedom from Poverty
2. A Social Theory of Human Rights
3. Human Rights Organizations
4. Social Justice Organizations
5. Humanitarian Organizations
6. Using a Social Theory to Interpret NGO Efforts
Appendix: NGOs Working for Freedom from Poverty
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments