Human Rights NGOs in East Africa

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2009

Human Rights NGOs in East Africa

Political and Normative Tensions

Edited by: Makau Mutua

In the series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203936

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About this book

Critically explores the anatomy of the human rights movement in East Africa, examining its origins, challenges, and emergent themes in the context of political transitions in the region. In particular, the book seeks to understand the political and normative challenges that face this young but vibrant civil society in the vortex of globalization.

Author information

Makau Mutua is Dean, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Professor of Law, Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, and Director of the Human Rights Center at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. He is the author of Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Makau Mutua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Defining Challenges to Civil Society in East Africa
CHAPTER ONE. Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges Makau Mutua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
CHAPTER TWO. To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya Betty K. Murungi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
PART II. Interrogating NGO Mandates: Gender, Sexuality, and ESC Rights
CHAPTER THREE. Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs Sylvia Tamale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
CHAPTER FOUR. NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective Joe Oloka-Onyango Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
CHAPTER FIVE. Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity Willy Mutunga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
CHAPTER SIX. Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State Jacinta K. Muteshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
PART III. Donors and Grantees: Convergences and Divergences
CHAPTER SEVEN. Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities Connie Ngondi-Houghton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
CHAPTER EIGHT. Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya Karuti Kanyinga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
PART IV. State/Civil Society Relations
CHAPTER NINE. State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change Livingstone Sewanyana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
CHAPTER TEN. Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs J. Wanjiku Miano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
PART FIVE. NGO Institutional Case Studies
CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Mrican Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-Mrican Organizing in Human Rights L. Muthoni Wanyeki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
CHAPTER TWELVE. Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs Dani W. Nabudere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
PART VI. South/South and North/South NGO Relations
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy Margaret A. Burnham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa Shaila Gupta and Alycia Kellman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Conclusion: Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Mrica Chris Maina Peter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 400
Illustrations
- Other: 1 illus.
Keywords: Political Science; Human Rights; Law; Middle Eastern Studies; African Studies; Asian Studies

eBook

Published: May 29, 2013
ISBN: 9780812203936