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| 050 00 ^aJQ2945.A91^bH918 2009
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| 245 00 ^aHuman rights NGOs in East Africa :^bpolitical and normative tensions /^cedited by Makau Mutua
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| 260 ^aPhiladelphia :^bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,^c[2009].
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| 300 ^avii, 390 p. ;^c24 cm.
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| 440 0 ^aPennsylvania studies in human rights
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| 504 ^aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [319]-365) and index.
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| 505 0 ^aHuman rights NGOs in East Africa : defining the challenges/^rMakau Mutua --^tTo whom, for what, and about what? The legitimacy of human rights NGOs in Kenya /^rBetty K.Murungi --^tLaw, sexuality, and politics in Uganda :challenges for women's human rights NGOs /^rSylvia Tamale --^tNGO struggles for economic, social, and cultural rights in UTAKE : a Ugandan perspective /^rJoe Oloka-Onyango --^tFeminist masculinity : advocacy for gender equality and equity /^rWilly Mutunga --^tWomen's advocacy : engendering and reconstituting the Kenyan state /^rJacinta K. Muteshi --^tDonors and human rights NGOs in East Africa : challenges and opportunities /^rConnie Ngondi-Houghton --^tContradictions in neoliberalism : donors, human rights NGOs, and governance in Kenya /^rKaruti Kanyinga --^tState and civil society relations : constructing human rights groups for social change /^rLivingstone Sewanyana --^tGovernance and democracy in Kenya : challenges for human rights NGOs /^rJ. Wanjiku Miano --^tThe African women's development and communication network : Pan-African organizing in human rights /^rL. Muthoni Wanyeki --^tSocial transformation in Uganda : a study of grassroots NGOs /^rDani W. Nabudere --^tThe death penalty in East Africa : law and transnational advocacy /^rMargaret A. Burnham --^tDemocracy organizations in political transitions : IDASA and the new South Africa /^rShaila Gupta and Alycia Kellman --^tConclusion : coming of age : NGOs and state accountability in East Africa /^rChris Maina Peter.
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| 520 ^aIn 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even so, this universal reliance on the rights idiom has not succeeded in creating common ground and deep agreement as to the scope, content, and philosophical bases for human rights. Makau Mutua argues that the human rights enterprise inappropriately presents itself as a guarantor of eternal truths without which human civilization is impossible. Mutua contends that in fact the human rights corpus, though well meaning, is a Eurocentric construct for the reconstitution of non-Western societies and peoples with a set of culturally biased norms and practices. Mutua maintains that if the human rights movement is to succeed, it must move away from Eurocentrism as a civilizing crusade and attack on non-European peoples. Only a genuine multicultural approach to human rights can make it truly universal. Indigenous, non-European traditions of Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas must be deployed to deconstruct |
| 650 0 ^aHuman rights^zAfrica, Eastern
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| 650 0 ^aDemocratization^zAfrica, Eastern
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| 650 0 ^aNon-governmental organizations^zAfrica, Eastern
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| 650 0 ^aCivil society^zAfrica, Eastern
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| 650 0 ^aDemocracy^zAfrica, Eastern
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| 651 0 ^aEastern Africa^xPolitics and government^y1960-
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| 653 ^aNew Arrivals 12-2019
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| 700 1 ^aMutua, Makau
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| 856 40 ^3Content^uhttp://library.nhrc.or.th/ulib/document/Content/T10786.pdf
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