Human rights NGOs in East Africa : political and normative tensions

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ISBN	9780812220490 (pbk.)
Call Number	JQ2945.A91 H918 2009
Title	Human rights NGOs in East Africa : political and normative tensions / edited by Makau Mutua
Imprint	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009].
Physical	vii, 390 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents Note	Human rights NGOs in East Africa : defining the challenges/ Makau Mutua --To whom, for what, and about what? The legitimacy of human rights NGOs in Kenya / Betty K.Murungi --Law, sexuality, and politics in Uganda :challenges for women's human rights NGOs / Sylvia Tamale --NGO struggles for economic, social, and cultural rights in UTAKE : a Ugandan perspective / Joe Oloka-Onyango --Feminist masculinity : advocacy for gender equality and equity / Willy Mutunga --Women's advocacy : engendering and reconstituting the Kenyan state / Jacinta K. Muteshi --Donors and human rights NGOs in East Africa : challenges and opportunities / Connie Ngondi-Houghton --Contradictions in neoliberalism : donors, human rights NGOs, and governance in Kenya / Karuti Kanyinga --State and civil society relations : constructing human rights groups for social change / Livingstone Sewanyana --Governance and democracy in Kenya : challenges for human rights NGOs / J. Wanjiku Miano --The African women's development and communication network : Pan-African organizing in human rights / L. Muthoni Wanyeki --Social transformation in Uganda : a study of grassroots NGOs / Dani W. Nabudere --The death penalty in East Africa : law and transnational advocacy / Margaret A. Burnham --Democracy organizations in political transitions : IDASA and the new South Africa / Shaila Gupta and Alycia Kellman --Conclusion : coming of age : NGOs and state accountability in East Africa / Chris Maina Peter.
Summary	In 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 deconstructand to reconstructa universal bundle of rights that all human societies can claim as theirs.
Subject	Human rights--Africa, Eastern
Subject	Democratization--Africa, Eastern
Subject	Non-governmental organizations--Africa, Eastern
Subject	Civil society--Africa, Eastern
Subject	Democracy--Africa, Eastern
Subject Geographic Name	Eastern Africa--Politics and government^y1960-
Keyword	New Arrivals 12-2019
Coorperative Author	Mutua, Makau
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504 ^aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [319]-365) and index.

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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 deconstructand to reconstructa universal bundle of rights that all human societies can claim as theirs.

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