The international struggle for new human rights /
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2009
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| Series: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : fighting for new rights / Clifford Bob
- Orphaned again? Children born of wartime rape as a non-issue for the human rights movement / R. Charli Carpenter
- "Dalit rights are human rights" : untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian state / Clifford Bob
- Applying the gatekeeper model of human rights activism : the U.S.-based movement for LGBT rights / Julie Mertus
- From resistance to receptivity : transforming the HIV/AIDS crisis into a human rights issue / Jeremy Youde
- Disability rights and the human rights mainstream : reluctant gate-crashers? / Janet E. Lord
- New rights for private wrongs : female genital mutilation and global framing dialogues / Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk
- Economic rights and extreme poverty : moving toward subsistence / Daniel Chong
- Local claims, international standards, and the human right to water / Paul J. Nelson