Making equal rights real : taking effective action to overcome global challenges /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 397 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Subject:	Human rights. Human rights advocacy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12597389

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Other authors / contributors:	Heymann, Jody, 1959- editor. Cassola, Adèle, editor.
ISBN:	9781139030663 (ebook) 9781107008458 (hardback) 9781107679146 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Summary:	Making Equal Rights Real brings together leaders from around the world who have been working effectively to increase equal economic and social rights, ranging from rights in the workplace to property ownership and education. The contributors tell the detailed stories of effective approaches to implementing equal rights for racial and ethnic minorities in North America, women in Africa, children in the Middle East and sexual minorities in Asia. They also describe approaches taken around the world to increase equal rights for people living in poverty, for those living with disabilities and for all people seeking the information they need to hold their government accountable for implementing everyone's rights. The book addresses what can be done by policymakers, civil society, non-governmental organizations, lawyers seeking to implement equal rights legislation and advocates working in the community, as well as those developing constitutions and negotiating international agreements.
Other form:	Print version: 9781107008458

Table of Contents:

Part I. Conventions and Constitutions
1. Forging effective international agreements: lessons from the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
2. Ensuring equal rights in constitutions: public participation in drafting economic, social and cultural rights
Part II. Laws and Policies
3. Putting economic rights into practice: strategies from labor and employment law
4. Promoting equity in economic rights: the case of gender and land rights
5. Equalizing social and cultural rights: approaches to equity across ethnic and racial groups
Part III. Budgets and Information
6. Public access to information: the keystone to claiming and defending rights
7. Government budgets and rights implementation: experience from around the world
8. Budgets, information and participation: civil society approaches to increasing rights accountability
Part IV. Case Studies of Successful Cross-Cutting Approaches
9. An integrated approach to advancing children's rights and participation in Jordan
10. Working within communities to increase gender equity in Zambia
11. Realizing equal rights in practice for people with disabilities in Argentina and the United States
12. Guaranteeing legal rights for sexual and gender minorities in Nepal

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