Freedom From Poverty - Ngos and Human Rights Praxis

Informationen zum Autor Daniel P.L. Chong Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Daniel P L Chong, Daniel P. L. Chong, Daniel P.L. Chong
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2010
• EAN: 9780812242522
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4252-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education