Demands of Justice

The Creation of a Global Human Rights Practice

Ann Marie Clark

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781009098274
• eBook ISBN: 9781009103466
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Demands of Justice draws on original interviews and archival research to show how global appeals for human rights began in the 1970s to expand the boundaries of the global neighbourhood and disseminate new arguments about humane concern and law in direct opposition to human rights violations.Turning a justice lens on human rights practice, Clark argues that human rights practice offers tools that enrich three facets of global justice: transnational expressions of simple concern, the political realization of justice through politics and law, and new but still incomplete approaches to social justice.A key case study explores the origins of Amnesty International's well-known Urgent Action alerts for individuals, as well as temporal change in the use of law in such appeals.A second case study, of Oxfam's adoption of rights language, demonstrates the spread of human rights as a primary way of expressing calls for justice in the world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Human Rights Advocacy and the Demands of Justice
• 2 Human Rights and Justice in Global Politics
• 3 Human Rights Tools in the Pursuit of Justice
• 4 Expanding the Global Neighborhood: Amnesty International’s Urgent Action
• 5 A Human Rights Culture of Argument: The Language of Care and Law in Urgent Action Appeals
• 6 “Together for Rights”: Oxfam and Basic Rights in Development Advocacy
• 7 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index