Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required reading materials

pp. 432.

•  Amon, J., Wurth, M. and Mclemore, M. (2013) Evaluating Human Rights Advocacy on Criminal Justice and Sex Work, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 17, No. 1 (June 2015), pp. 91-101.(10 pp)

•  Bantekas, I. & Oette, L. (2016) International human rights law and practice, 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press p. 96-144. (48 pp).

•  Bob, C. (2009) ‘Introduction: Fighting for New Rights’, The International Struggle for New Human Rights (University of Pensylvannia Press), pp. 1-13 (12 pp.).

•  Dudai, R. (2014) Introduction—Rights Choices: Dilemmas of Human Rights Practice, Journal of Human Rights Practice Vol. 6, 3, November, pp. 389–398. DOI:10.1093/jhuman/huu021.(9 pp.)

•  Gotzmann, N. (2016) Human rights and Impact Assessment- conceptual and practical considerations in the private sector context: Danish Institute for Human Rights. (pp. 41)

•  Knuckey, S. (eds.) The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding, Oxford University Press (25 pp).

•  Land, M. K (2015) Democratizing Human Rights Fact-Finding in Alston, P. and

•  Lewis, D. (2003) Theorizing the organization and management of nongovernmental development organizations , Public Management Review, 5:3, 325-344, DOI: 10.1080/1471903032000146937 (pp.24).

•  Merry, S. (2006) Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle, American Anthropologist, March, Vol.108(1), pp.38-51 (pp. 23)

•  Goodale, M. (2007) Locating Rights, Envisioning Law between the Local and the Global. In M. Goodale and S. E. Merry (eds), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Global and the Local: 1–38. Cambridge University Press.(38 pp.)

•  Gready, P., and B. Phillips (2009) An Unfinished Enterprise: Visions, Reflections, and an Invitation. Journal of Human Rights Practice 1(1): 1–13.(13 pp.)

•  Hearne, R. and Kennan, P. (2014) Using the Human Rights Based Approach to Tackle Housing Deprivation in an Irish Urban Housing Estate, Journal of Human Rights Practice, 6, 1, March 2014. pp. 1–25 DOI:10.1093/jhuman/hut028 (25 pp.)

•  Jones, P., Kimari, W. & Ramakrishnan, K. (2017): ‘Only the people can defend this struggle’: the politics of the everyday, extrajudicial executions and civil society in Mathare, Kenya’, Review of African Political Economy http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2016.1269000 (14 pp.)

•  Madlingozi, T. (2010) On Transitional Justice Entrepreneurs and the Production of Victims, Journal of Human Rights Practice Vol. 2 No. 2: 208-228 (20 pp) http://jhrp.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/2/208.full.pdf+html

•  Nelson, N. & Dorsey, E. (2008) ‘Transforming the Human Rights Movement: Human Rights NGOs Embrace ESC Rights’ in New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs (Georgetown University Press), pp. 45-86 (41 pp.)

•  New York Times (2014) Have Human Rights Treaties Failed? https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/12/28/have-human-rights-treaties-failed?rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Room%20for%20Debate&pgtype=blogs (2 pp.)

•  O'Flaherty, M. and Ulrich, G. (2010) ‘The Professionalization of Human Rights Field Work’, Journal of Human Rights Practice Vol. 2 No. 1 pp. 1-27. (27 pp) http://jhrp.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/1/1.full.pdf+html

•  Petrasek, D.(2011) ‘Human Rights – The Last Big Thing?’ Journal of Human Rights Practice 3(1), pp. 105-112 (7 pp.)

•  Risse, T., Sikkink, K. (1999) The socialisation of international human rights norms into domestic practices: introduction. In T. Risse, S. C. Ropp, K. Sikkink, (Eds.). The power of human rights: international norms and domestic change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-39. (39 pp.)

•  Risse, T. And Ropp, S. (2013) Introduction and Overview, in The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance, eds Risse, T., Ropp, S., amd Sikkink, K Cambridge university Press), pp. 3-25. (22 pp.)

•  Sharp, D. (2016) Human rights Fact-Finding and the Reproduction of Hierarchies, in Alston, P. and Knuckey, S. (eds.) The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-33. (33 pp.)

•  Simmons, B. (2014) ‘The Future of the Human Rights Movement’, Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 28, pp.183-196. (13 pp.) http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FEIA%2FEIA28_02%2FS0892679414000227a.pdf&code=70b5d8e78fb69a08417e3dfa463249ff

•  Watson, G., Tamir, I. & Kemp, B. (2013) Human rights impact assessment in practice: Oxfam's application of a community-based approach, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, vol. 31, 2, pp. 118-127(9 pp.)

 

Additional materials (especially for internship report)

pp. 269

•  International Center for Not-for-Profit Law and World Movement for Democracy, ‘Defending Civil Society’, International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, Vol. 10, no. 2 (2008), pp. 30-37 (7 pp), http://www.icnl.org/research/journal/vol10iss2/art_2.htm

•  Chandler, D. (2003) Rhetoric without responsibility: the attraction of ‘ethical’ foreign policy, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 5, No. 3, August 2003, pp. 295–316. (21 pp.)

•  Cravens, J. Basic Tips for Fund-raising for Small NGOs in Developing Countries (15 pp) http://www.coeworld.org/sites/default/files/attachments/Basic_NGO_funding_final-JCravens_1.pdf

•  Heywood, M. (2005) Shaping, Making and Breaking the Law in the Campaign for a National HIV/AIDS Treatment Plan, in Democratising Development: The Politics of Socio-Economic rights in South Africa pp.181, 212 (Peris Jones & Kristian Stokke eds., 2005) (31 pp.)

•  Kennedy D. (2002) The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem? 15 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 101, pp. 101-125 (24 pp)

•  Mathare Social Justice Centre (2017) Who is next: a Participatory Action research Report Against the Normalization of Extra-judicial Executions in Mathare, http://www.matharesocialjustice.org/who-is-next/ pp. 45.

•  Mertus, J. Considerations for Human Rights Considerations for Human Rights Fact Finding by NGOs, (2 pp). http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139019408

•  Mosse, D. (2005) Introduction: The ethnography of policy and practice, in Cultivating Development, Mosse, D., Vistaar Publications, New Delhi. pp. 1-46. (46 pages).

•  Roth, K. ‘Defending Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Practical Issues Faced by an International Human Rights Organization’, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1, (2004), pp. 63-73 (11 pp) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v026/26.1roth.pdf

•  Rubenstein, L. A Response to Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4, (2004), pp. 845-865 (20 pp) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/toc/hrq26.4.htmlpp) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hrq/summary/v030/30.3.rogoff.html

•  New Tactics in Human Rights, Resource for Practitioners pp.10-23 (pp. 13) http://www.newtactics.org/sites/default/files/resources/entire-book-EN.pdf

•  OHCHR, Human Rights Training, pp. 1-14 (14 pp) http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/training6en.pdf

•  Statement of Ethical Commitments of Human Rights Professionals (2 pp) http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.se/sites/default/files/documents/6030.pdf (see pp. 22-23 in the document).

•  For reference: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Human_rights_indicators_en.pdf

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