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Human Rights Treaties: A Suggested Typology, An Historical Perspective, John King Gamble, Teresa A. Bailey, Jared S. Hawk, Erin E. Mccurdy
Human Rights Treaties: A Suggested Typology, An Historical Perspective, John King Gamble, Teresa A. Bailey, Jared S. Hawk, Erin E. Mccurdy
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
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To Labor In The Dancing World: Human Rights At Work, Erin E. Bahn
To Labor In The Dancing World: Human Rights At Work, Erin E. Bahn
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
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Expanding International And National Protections Against Trafficking For Forced Labor Using A Human Rights Framework, Shelley Case Inglis
Expanding International And National Protections Against Trafficking For Forced Labor Using A Human Rights Framework, Shelley Case Inglis
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
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Russian Jewry: The History Of Survival, Polina Tomashevsky
Russian Jewry: The History Of Survival, Polina Tomashevsky
Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
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The Rwanda Tribunal: A Critical Assessment, Makau Wa Mutua
The Rwanda Tribunal: A Critical Assessment, Makau Wa Mutua
Other Scholarship
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J. Shand Watson's Theory And Reality In The International Protection Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua
J. Shand Watson's Theory And Reality In The International Protection Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua
Book Reviews
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Savages, Victims, And Saviors: The Metaphor Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua
Savages, Victims, And Saviors: The Metaphor Of Human Rights, Makau Wa Mutua
Journal Articles
This article critically looks at the human rights project as a damning three-dimensional metaphor that exposes multiple complexes. It argues that the grand narrative of human rights contains a subtext which depicts an epochal contest pitting savages, on the one hand, against victims and saviors, on the other. The savages-victims-saviors (SVS) construction lays bare some of the hypocrisies of the human rights project and asks human rights thinkers and advocates to become more self-reflective. The piece questions the universality and cultural neutrality of the human rights project. It calls for the construction of a truly universal human rights corpus, one …
Human Rights International Ngos: A Critical Evaluation, Makau Wa Mutua
Human Rights International Ngos: A Critical Evaluation, Makau Wa Mutua
Contributions to Books
Published as Chapter 7 in NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance, Claude E. Welch, Jr., ed.
The Human rights movement can be seen in a variety of guises. It can be seen as a movement for international justice or as a cultural project for “civilizing savage” cultures. In this chapter, I discuss a part of that movement as a crusade for a political project. International nongovernmental human rights organizations (INGOs), the small and elite collection of human rights groups based in the most powerful cultural and political capitals of the West, have arguably been the most influential component of …