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- Title
Reflections on a Human Rights Decade, Near and Far.
- Authors
Gready, Paul
- Abstract
This article reflects on some lessons from the past decade, taking as its point of reference two interventions at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR), University of York: the campaign for York to become a human rights city, and a Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. It draws a number of lessons for human rights from these interventions, which link the local and specific to broader global dynamics. These lessons are: develop (bigger) visions; defend victories, define progress; re-engage majority populations; reframe arguments and narratives; rethink partnerships and solidarities without and within; and channel despair. The argument resonates with an understanding of human rights practice as characterized by complex judgments, balancing arguments and values, and the navigation of dilemmas, rather than certainties, absolutes and proclamations.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITY of York; HUMAN rights; HUMAN rights workers; LOW vision
- Publication
Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 2, p422
- ISSN
1757-9619
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhuman/huz024