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Doing the rights thing : rights-based development and Latin American NGOs / Maxine Molyneux, Sian Lazar.

Title
Doing the rights thing : rights-based development and Latin American NGOs / Maxine Molyneux, Sian Lazar.
Author
Molyneux, Maxine
Publication
London : ITDG Publishing, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Lazar, Sian.
  • Intermediate Technology Development Group
Description
xii, 164 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Viewpoints
Uniform Title
Viewpoints (Intermediate Technology Development Group)
Alternative Title
Rights-based development and Latin American NGOs
Subject
  • Economic development > Moral and ethical aspects > Latin America
  • Humanitarian assistance > Moral and ethical aspects > Latin America
  • Non-governmental organizations > Latin America
  • Latin America > Social conditions
Genre/Form
Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-157) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Defining rights-based work -- Rights and poverty elimination: Latin American innovations -- A note on the research process -- Rights in development: conceptual issues -- Participation, empowerment and rights -- Social and economic rights -- Latin America: the right(s) time and the right(s) place -- Regional context -- Bolivia, Peru, Nicaragua and Mexico -- NGOs and rights approaches -- Welcoming rights -- Rights and needs -- Implementing rights: participation, empowerment and governance -- Linking participation, empowerment and rights -- Governance and the rule of law -- Campaigning for rights: violence against women and women's citizenship -- 'A life free of violence. It's our right', the VAW campaign -- Citizenship -- Meeting challenges: problems with rights -- Structural obstacles -- Cultural constraints and ethical debates -- Consequences: organizational implications of the shift to rights -- Changing visions of the subjects of development -- Evaluation -- Downwards accountability and user participation -- Accountability and egalitarian relationships -- Maseualsiuamej Mosenyolchikuanij -- Puntos de Encuentro, Nicaragua.
ISBN
1853395684
OCLC
  • 53156854
  • SCSB-10017355
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library