Ethics in Action

The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations

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This book is the product of a multiyear dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) sponsored by the United Nations University, Tokyo, and the City University of Hong Kong. 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 organization 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 from both theorists and practitioners of human rights.

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'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.' H-Net Reviews

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Reflections on Dialogues between Practitioners and Theorists of Human Rights	p. 1
Northern INGOs and Southern AID Recipients: the Challenge of Unequal Power
The Pornography of Poverty: A Cautionary Fundraising Tale	p. 23
An Imperfect Process: Funding Human Rights-A Case Study	p. 38
Transformational Development as the Key to Housing Rights	p. 54
Human Rights INGOs and the North-South Gap: The Challenge of Normative and Empirical Learning	p. 79
INGOs and Governments: The Challenge of Dealing with States That Restrict the Activities of INGOs
Dilemmas Facing NGOs in Coalition-Occupied Iraq	p. 99
Human Rights in Action: Supporting Human Rights Work in Authoritarian Countries	p. 117
Driving without a Map: Implementing Legal Projects in China Aimed at Improving Human Rights	p. 132
Normative Compliance and Hard Bargaining: INGOs and China's Response to International Human Rights Criticism	p. 151
INGOs and Economic Rights: The Challenge of Dealing with Global Poverty
Defending Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Practical Issues Faced by an International Human Rights Organization	p. 169
Thinking through Social and Economic Rights	p. 181
Response to the Critique of Neera Chandhoke	p. 198
A Final Response to Kenneth Roth	p. 201
Amnesty International and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	p. 204
Moral Priorities for International Human Rights NGOs	p. 218
The Problem of Doing Good in a World That Isn't: Reflections on the Ethical Challenges Facing INGOs	p. 257
Respect and Disagreement: A Response to Joseph Carens	p. 273
Conclusion: INGOs as Collective Mobilization of Transnational Solidarity: Implications for Human Rights Work at the United Nations	p. 279
Index	p. 303
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The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations

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