Ethics in Action

The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations

Daniel A Bell editor Jean-Marc Coicaud editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Oct '06

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This book aims to delineate major ethical challenges faced by human rights INGOs.

This collection is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It aims to delineate the major ethical challenges faced by human rights INGOs and puts forward suggestions for dealing with those challenges.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.' H-Net Reviews

ISBN: 9780521865661

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm

Weight: 660g

336 pages