Chapter 5. Reframing Human Rights: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and International Sport

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-135
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
International Human ◽  
International Sport

scholarly journals Virunga National Park - Steder og rettigheder for gorillaer og mennesker i Afrika

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (119) ◽  
pp. 13-34
Author(s):  
Frits Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
National Park ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
International Human ◽  
Congo Free State

The article outlines some of the historical traces for the eco-crisis that presently threatens the first and most outstanding national park in Africa, homeland of the mountain gorilla. After a short description of the site, the article presents the Congo Reform Movement’s campaign against the bloody suppression in the Congo Free State around 1900, often referred to as the Red Rubber-regime. The Congo Reform Movements “Atrocity Meetings” are considered to be the first human rights campaign, because they established the rhetorical models that we find today in Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Global Witness. The article argues that we can detect similar and highly problematic structures in the animal rights campaigns which took on a global scale in the 1970s – initiated among others by Dian Fossey and her famous and infamous fight for the protection of mountain gorillas in the Virunga mountains. Both human rights campaigns and animal rights campaigns share a responsibility, I argue, for the eco-crisis at Virunga. Finally I present the documentary Virunga from 2014 as a model and as a rhetorical alternative.

Nongovernmental International Human Rights Organizations: The Case of Hong Kong

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (03) ◽  
pp. 642-653
Author(s):  
Wai-man Lam
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
International Human ◽  
Developed World

ABSTRACTThis article examines the contributions of nongovernmental international human rights organizations (NGIHRO) in promoting a broad sense of human rights in hybrid regimes using the cases of Amnesty International Hong Kong (AIHK), Green Peace Hong Kong (GPHK), and Oxfam Hong Kong (OHK). It contends that NGIHROs have made significant contributions to public education and fund-raising in Hong Kong. However, with regard to the human rights conditions, it is erroneous to consider Hong Kong as part of the developed world. Together with other probable political considerations, doing so may have led to gaps in the organizations’ roles and functions as advocates for human rights in Hong Kong. In the final analysis, this article uses the political protests in Hong Kong to illustrate the importance of addressing the implications of demands for preserving the local identity and alternative lifestyles in the broader understanding of human rights.

scholarly journals Amnesty International dan Penghapusan Hukuman Mati di Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-257
Author(s):  
Yanti Kristina Sianturi ◽  
Irza Khurun'in
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Transnational Advocacy ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Death Row Inmates ◽  
International Human

Malaysia is a country where the death penalty is still present and frequently practiced. It is due to different understandings of the death penalty itself. The absence of the Malaysian government in various international human rights treaties also increases unfair trials on death row inmates. The high number of death row inmates in Malaysia represents a severe human rights violation. The abolition of the death penalty is one of the current global human rights agendas. It goes against the right to live regulated by various international human rights instruments, such as the ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) and the Declaration of Human Rights. One of the INGOs actively advocating the abolition of the death penalty in Malaysia is Amnesty International. This study looks at Amnesty International’s transnational advocacy tactics in encouraging the death penalty abolition in Malaysia from 2015 to 2018. The method used is descriptive research by collecting primary and secondary data and using transnational advocacy networks by Keck and Sikkink. The results of this research show that the efforts used by Amnesty International in this advocacy include information politics, symbolic politics, leverage politics, and accountability politics.

Defying Communism

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-160
Author(s):  
Aryeh Neier
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Communist Countries

This chapter examines the rise of the international human rights movement as significant force in world affairs. It draws attention to the Cold War, in which the context of international human rights took place. It also talks about the “Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch” as one of the leading non-governmental human rights organizations operating globally that was established at different stages of the Cold War era. The chapter focuses on the emergence of the human rights movement in the communist countries, as well as its development on the other side of the Cold War divide. It illustrates the demonstration over the arrests of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel in 1965, which marked the beginning of the emergence of a human rights movement in the Soviet bloc countries.

scholarly journals Human Rights - the Way Forward

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 703
Author(s):  
Justice Micheal Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Memorial Address ◽  
International Human ◽  
Financial Base ◽  
The Way

The following paper was presented at the inaugural Michael Hirschfeld Memorial Address hosted by the Amnesty International Freedom Foundation on 30 October 1999. Michael Hirschfeld was instrumental in establishing the Freedom Foundation in 1989. He wanted to help stabilise Amnesty International's financial base in order to guarantee the organisation's research and international campaigning efforts against gross human rights violations such as unfair imprisonment, torture and killings. His death at the beginning of 1999 shocked and saddened fellow Freedom Foundation members who determined to establish this annual event to honour his memory and his commitment to international human rights.

Cul-de-sac to the West: Human Rights and Hypocrisy between Turkey and Europe in the 1980s

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Bennett G. Sherry
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The West ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
International Human

Abstract In the 1980s, over a million Iranian asylum seekers transited through Turkey on their way west, most moving through irregular migration channels. While much has been made of Turkey’s evolving role in more recent refugee crises, this literature neglects the importance of the 1980s Iranian refugee migrations in shaping the global refugee system. By connecting the story of the international human rights movement to the Ankara office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), this paper emphasizes the role of non-state actors. Based on research in the archives of the UNHCR, this paper argues that the UNHCR and Amnesty International used human rights as a tool to pressure Turkey to open its doors to Iranian refugees in the early 1980s, and that this tactic backfired when the West closed its own doors on refugees later in the decade. The result was the increased forcible return of refugees by Turkish authorities to Iran and newly restrictive asylum policies, which would shape refugee migrations through Turkey for decades. For millions of refugees, Turkey has served as transit hub on their journey west; in the 1980s, human rights hypocrisy made it a cul-de-sac.

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