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Human Rights Strategies: Benefits and Drawbacks

Human Rights Strategies: Benefits and Drawbacks

Author: Ingrid Westendorp
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035314133
Published In: October 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book explores how various strategies have been developed over time to address different human rights objectives. It provides a critical examination of the benefits and drawbacks of different human rights strategies, and explores the cultural dimension; considering how particular strategies may be viewed and deployed differently in contemporary human rights practice.

An international team of expert legal scholars focus on three key human rights strategies: naming and shaming, strategic litigation and information politics. By analysing these strategies, they explain their respective advantages, pitfalls and idiosyncrasies. Chapters highlight that whilst these strategies may aid in furthering human rights law and protecting individuals from human rights violations, any strategy may have the potential for unintended negative consequences; sometimes at the expense of certain rights or certain individuals. Ultimately, the book highlights that strategies should not overshadow the essence of human rights, but are simply a means of communicating a message.

Human Rights Strategies is a fundamental resource for legal scholars and students with a particular interest in human rights and public international law. Legal practitioners, policymakers and NGOs in the human rights sphere will also find this to be a useful reference point.

PART I. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS OF STRATEGIES

Introduction to human rights strategies 17

Ingrid Westendorp

2. The deliberative deficit of human rights strategies: conceptual problems and practical implications 25

Gustavo Arosemena

Finding its voice: the OHCHR in the digital age; OHCHR, human rights violations, social media and press releases 44

Conall Mallory and Rhona Smith

PART II. STRATEGIC LITIGATION

Disability cause lawyering at the European Court of Human Rights: lessons from strategic litigation on the

right to political participation 78

János Fiala-Butora, Matthew S. Smith and Michael Ashley Stein

5. Mobilising the European Social Charter’s collective complaints procedure for legal and social change 108