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Navigating The Moral Minefields Of Human Rights Advocacy In The Global South, Sandra L. Babcock
Navigating The Moral Minefields Of Human Rights Advocacy In The Global South, Sandra L. Babcock
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Human rights advocacy in foreign countries raises complex ethical, moral, and political questions. Legal scholars have challenged the legitimacy and accountability of international human rights activists that impose foreign agendas on local partners in the Global South. Development economists have raised related concerns about the impact of foreign assistance on government accountability. In this article, I use narrative storytelling techniques to illustrate the fraught strategic judgments and moral choices that permeate human rights advocacy. These narratives are drawn from my international human rights clinic’s twelve-year engagement in justice reform work in Malawi, where my students and I have been instrumental …
The Task Ahead In Legal Services, Roger C. Cramton
The Task Ahead In Legal Services, Roger C. Cramton
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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