Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations » (New Edition)

Daniel A. Bell is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has held fellowships at Stanford's Center for Advanced study in the Behavioral Sciences and Princeton University Center of Human Values. His books include Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context (Princeton University Press 2006), East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia (Princeton University Press 2000) and Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford University Press 1993).

Jean-Marc Coicaud heads the UNU Office at the United Nations in New York. Dr Coicaud was Senior Academic Officer in the Peace and Governance Programme at UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr Boutros Boutros-Ghali. A former fellow at Harvard University Center for International Affairs and Harvard Law School, Coicaud has held appointments as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee).

This book aims to delineate major ethical challenges faced by human rights INGOs.

Acknowledgments     ix
List of Contributors     xi
Introduction: Reflections on Dialogues between Practitioners and Theorists of Human Rights   Daniel A. Bell     1
Northern INGOs and Southern AID Recipients: the Challenge of Unequal Power
The Pornography of Poverty: A Cautionary Fundraising Tale   Betty Plewes   Rieky Stuart     23
An Imperfect Process: Funding Human Rights-A Case Study   Mona Younis     38
Transformational Development as the Key to Housing Rights   Steven Weir     54
Human Rights INGOs and the North-South Gap: The Challenge of Normative and Empirical Learning   Bonny Ibhawoh     79
INGOs and Governments: The Challenge of Dealing with States That Restrict the Activities of INGOs
Dilemmas Facing NGOs in Coalition-Occupied Iraq   Lyal S. Sunga     99
Human Rights in Action: Supporting Human Rights Work in Authoritarian Countries   Birgit Lindsnaes   Hans-Otto Sano   Hatla Thelle     117
Driving without a Map: Implementing Legal Projects in China Aimed at Improving Human Rights   Sophia Woodman     132
Normative Compliance and Hard Bargaining: INGOs and China's Response to International Human Rights Criticism   Sun Zhe     151
INGOs and Economic Rights: The Challenge of Dealing withGlobal Poverty
Defending Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Practical Issues Faced by an International Human Rights Organization   Kenneth Roth     169
Thinking through Social and Economic Rights   Neera Chandhoke     181
Response to the Critique of Neera Chandhoke   Kenneth Roth     198
A Final Response to Kenneth Roth   Neera Chandhoke     201
Amnesty International and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights   Curt Goering     204
Moral Priorities for International Human Rights NGOs   Thomas Pogge     218
The Problem of Doing Good in a World That Isn't: Reflections on the Ethical Challenges Facing INGOs   Joseph H. Carens     257
Respect and Disagreement: A Response to Joseph Carens   Thomas Pogge     273
Conclusion: INGOs as Collective Mobilization of Transnational Solidarity: Implications for Human Rights Work at the United Nations   Jean-Marc Coicaud     279
Index     303