Transnational activism, Amnesty International and human rights in China

The implications of consistent civil and political rights framing

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ID12593757
AuthorsCaroline Fleay (0000-0002-7013-240X, Curtin University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume16
Issue7
Pages915-930
Publication date2011-11-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1364-2987 • E-ISSN: 1744-053X
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13642987.2011.635340
OpenAlexW1964380331
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This article explores Amnesty International's consistent focus on civil and political rights in its campaigning on China. Such a focus has been evident from the beginning of Amnesty International's attention to human rights in China in the late 1970s to the present, despite the decision in 2001 that the organisation would work to promote all categories of human rights. This suggests that the early framing of human rights as particular civil and political rights by the organisation continues to be a somewhat settled frame of meaning in the case of China. The implications of this framing include that while it elevates certain abuses within China, abuses that local activists face considerable domestic constraints to highlight, it inevitably marginalises other abuses and obscures more complex understandings of human rights in China

Amnesty · China · Framing (construction · Human rights · International human rights law · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Right to property · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · International Development and Aid · Law

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