Human rights NGOs in East Africa: political and normative tensions
edited by Makau Mutua
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- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
- Copyright:
- ©2009
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- Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Makau Mutua
- Pt. I. Defining Challenges to Civil Society in East Africa
- Ch. 1. Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges / Makau Mutua
- Ch. 2. To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya / Betty K. Murungi
- Pt. II. Interrogating NGO Mandates: Gender, Sexuality, and ESC Rights
- Ch. 3. Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs / Sylvia Tamale
- Ch. 4. NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective / Joe Oloka-Onyango
- Ch. 5. Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity / Willy Mutunga
- Ch. 6. Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State / Jacinta K. Muteshi
- Pt. III. Donors and. Grantees: Convergences and Divergences
- Ch. 7. Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities / Connie Ngondi-Houghton
- Ch. 8. Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya / Karuti Kanyinga
- Pt. IV. State/Civil Society Relations
- Ch. 9. State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change / Livingstone Sewanyana
- Ch. 10. Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs / J. Wanjiku Miano
- Pt. V. NGO Institutional Case Studies
- Ch. 11. The African Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-African Organizing in Human Rights / L. Muthoni Wanyeki
- Ch. 12. Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs / Dani W. Nabudere
- Pt. VI. South/South and North/South NGO Relations
- Ch. 13. The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy / Margaret A. Burnham
- Ch. 14. Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa / Shaila Gupta and Alycia Kellman
- Conclusion: Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Africa / Chris Maina Peter.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-365) and index.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 390 pages ; 24 cm.
- Call Numbers:
- JQ2945.A91 H88 2009
- ISBNs:
- 9780812220490 (alk. paper)
0812220498 (alk. paper)
9780812241129
0812241126 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2008025562
- OCLC Numbers:
- 229036302