Human Rights Practice
This stream will seek to explore the interface between human rights scholarship and practice. Moving beyond a strictly theoretical or legal perspective, it will aim to examine the “real life” of human rights, as well as human rights activism itself – its ethical imperatives, its particular constituencies, its strategies, its social and political impact, and its organisational structure.
Submissions are invited on themes such as:
- aspects of the human rights mainstream currently facing challenges (civil
liberties in the "war on terror") and opportunities (work on economic and
social rights, efforts to render non-state actors more accountable using
human rights mechanisms);
- beyond the mainstream, the proliferation of rights-based work in fields as
varied as public health, the environment, development, humanitarianism,
conflict transformation and others;
- reflective use of human rights alongside other moral vocabularies and
strategies for social change;
- two way learning processes or possibilities between human rights and
related fields and between South and North;
- the legitimacy, accountability and organizational culture of human rights NGOs;
- case studies exploring the impact and success – or lack thereof – of specific rights-based campaigns.
We welcome submissions from academics, practitioners and post-graduate students.
Professor Paul Gready
Centre For Applied Human Rights
University of York
Sally Baldwin Block D
Wentworth Way
Heslington
York. YO120 5DD
E-mail: pg526@york.ac.uk
Phone: 01904 434395