Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required Readings 330 pages

Advocates for Human Rights (2015) Human Rights Tools for a Changing World A step-by-step guide to human rights fact-finding, documentation, and advocacy (ch7 advocacy, 97-132 (35 pages).

Alston, P. (2017)The Populist Challenge to Human Rights, Journal of Human Rights Practice, 9, 1–15 (15 pages)  

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)

Dudai, R. (2017) Human Rights in the Populist Era: Mourn then (Re)Organize, Journal of Human Rights Practice, 9, 16–21 (5 pages)

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)

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.)

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 (14 pp.)

Land, M. K (2015) Democratizing Human Rights Fact-Finding in Alston, P. and Knuckey, S. (eds.) The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding, Oxford University Press (25 pp).

Langford (2008)Water Services Fault Lines: An Assessment of South Africa’s Water and Sanitation Provision across 15 Municipalities (Johannesburg: Centre for Applied Legal Studies 2008) pp. 88 (with Kate Tissington, Marc Dettmann, Jackie Dugard and Sonkita Conteh).

New York Times (2014) Have Human Rights Treaties Failed? (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) 

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.) 

Additional reference materials (especially for internship report) pp. 393

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.).

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

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

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.)

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

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).

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

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.

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.)

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).

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.)

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

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