Ethics in Action

The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations

Bibliographic Data

ID19945933
AuthorsDaniel Bell (0000-0001-5637-283X), Betty Plewes, Mona Younis, Steven Weir, Bonny Ibhawoh (0000-0003-3627-5666), Lyal S Sunga, Birgit Lindsnæs, Sophia Woodman (0000-0002-7099-2717), Sun Zhe (0000-0002-0149-532X), Kenneth Roth, Neera Chandhoke, Curt Goering, Thomas Pogge (0000-0001-9081-1314), Joseph H Carens
EditorsDaniel A Bell (0000-0002-5521-3383), Jean-Marc Coicaud
Year2006
Publication date2006-10-16
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueEthics in Action (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511511233
OpenAlexW1558444236
Open LibraryOL17155472M
ISBN9780511511233
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on the activities of human rights INGOs; and the tension between expanding the organization's mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it for the sake of focusing on more immediate and clearly identifiable violations of civil and political rights. Each section contains contributions by both theorists and practitioners of human rights

Action (physics) · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Human rights · Law and economics · Mandate · Political science · Politics · Product (mathematics) · Public relations · Sociology · Engineering · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Public Administration · Non-governmental organizations · Political ethics