Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511511233

This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on the activities of human rights INGOs; and the tension between expanding the organization's mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it for the sake of focusing on more immediate and clearly identifiable violations of civil and political rights. Each section contains contributions by both theorists and practitioners of human rights.

'Ethics in Action fills an important gap in the growing literature on the contributions that INGOs make to the international system, and the editors deserve praise for taking on such an important, yet often neglected, subject.'

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Contents
pp vii-viii
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Acknowledgments
pp ix-x
- By Daniel A. Bell, Professor Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Jean-Marc Coicaud, Heads United Nations University (UNU) Office, United Nations, New York
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List of Contributors
pp xi-xiv
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Introduction: Reflections on Dialogues between Practitioners and Theorists of Human Rights
pp 1-22
- By Daniel A. Bell, Professor Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing
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SECTION I - NORTHERN INGOs AND SOUTHERN AID RECIPIENTS: THE CHALLENGE OF UNEQUAL POWER
- By Daniel A. Bell, Professor Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Jean-Marc Coicaud, Heads United Nations University (UNU) Office, United Nations, New York
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1 - The Pornography of Poverty: A Cautionary Fundraising Tale
pp 23-37
- By Betty Plewes, Former President-CEO Canadian Council for International Cooperation, Rieky Stuart, Former Executive Director Oxfam Canada
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2 - An Imperfect Process: Funding Human Rights – A Case Study
pp 38-53
- By Mona Younis, Human Rights Program Officer Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York
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3 - Transformational Development as the Key to Housing Rights
pp 54-78
- By Steven Weir, Area Vice President Asia Pacific, Habitat for Humanity International in Bangkok, Thailand
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4 - Human Rights INGOs and the North–South Gap: The Challenge of Normative and Empirical Learning
pp 79-98
- By Bonny Ibhawoh, Assistant Professor of History and Social Justice Brock University, Canada
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SECTION II - INGOs AND GOVERNMENTS: THE CHALLENGE OF DEALING WITH STATES THAT RESTRICT THE ACTIVITIES OF INGOs
- By Daniel A. Bell, Professor Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Jean-Marc Coicaud, Heads United Nations University (UNU) Office, United Nations, New York
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5 - Dilemmas Facing NGOs in Coalition-Occupied Iraq
pp 99-116
- By Lyal S. Sunga, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden
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6 - Human Rights in Action: Supporting Human Rights Work in Authoritarian Countries
pp 117-131
- By Birgit Lindsnæs, Chair of the Board International Service for Human Rights, Geneva; Chair of the Work Group Global Public Goods and Human Rights, Hans-Otto Sano, Director of Research Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Hatla Thelle, Senior Researcher Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), Copenhagen
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7 - Driving without a Map: Implementing Legal Projects in China Aimed at Improving Human Rights
pp 132-150
- By Sophia Woodman, Researches Chinese law, Politics, and Human Rights University of Hong Kong
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8 - Normative Compliance and Hard Bargaining: INGOs and China's Response to International Human Rights Criticism
pp 151-168
- By Sun Zhe, Professor and Deputy Director Center for American Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai
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SECTION III - INGOs AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS: THE CHALLENGE OF DEALING WITH GLOBAL POVERTY
- By Daniel A. Bell, Professor Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Jean-Marc Coicaud, Heads United Nations University (UNU) Office, United Nations, New York
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9 - Defending Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Practical Issues Faced by an International Human Rights Organization
pp 169-180
- By Kenneth Roth
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10 - Thinking through Social and Economic Rights
pp 181-197
- By Neera Chandhoke, Professor Department of Political Science; Director of the Developing Countries Research Center, University of Delhi
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Response to the Critique of Neera Chandhoke
pp 198-200
- By Kenneth Roth
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A Final Response to Kenneth Roth
pp 201-203
- By Neera Chandhoke, Professor Department of Political Science; Director of the Developing Countries Research Center, University of Delhi
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11 - Amnesty International and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
pp 204-217
- By Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer Amnesty International USA (AI USA)
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12 - Moral Priorities for International Human Rights NGOs
pp 218-256
- By Thomas Pogge, Professorial Research Fellow Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
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13 - The Problem of Doing Good in a World That Isn't: Reflections on the Ethical Challenges Facing INGOs
pp 257-272
- By Joseph H. Carens, Professor of Political Science University of Toronto
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Respect and Disagreement: A Response to Joseph Carens
pp 273-278
- By Thomas Pogge, Professorial Research Fellow Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
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Conclusion: INGOs as Collective Mobilization of Transnational Solidarity: Implications for Human Rights Work at the United Nations
pp 279-302
- By Jean-Marc Coicaud, Heads United Nations University (UNU) Office, United Nations, New York
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Index
pp 303-320
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