International Attention and the Protection of Human Rights Defenders - Campaigning for Agents of Change

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings.

List of contents

Introduction Part I: The ‘Human Rights Defender’ in International Politics 1. A Short History of the ‘Human Rights Defender’ 2. Unpacking the ‘Human Rights Defender’ Theory of Change Part II: Can UN Attention Protect Human Rights Defenders? 3. What Do the UN’s ‘Independent Eyes and Ears’ See and Hear? 4. Making a Difference: The Protective Effect of UN Casework Part III: Defenders’ Protection and Human Rights Change in Tunisia 5. The International Protection of Tunisian Defenders under Ben Ali 6. Translating Protection into Human Rights Change for Tunisia Conclusion

About the author

Janika Spannagel is a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, where she currently studies the diffusion and contestation of academic freedom norms at the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)". She previously co-developed the Academic Freedom Index. Her background is in researching human rights and political repression.

Summary

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings.

Product details

• Authors: Janika Spannagel, Janika (Freie Universitat Berlin Spannagel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032431079
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243107-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, International institutions, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law