Human Rights NGOs in East Africa Political and Normative Tensions 1st Edition by Makau Mutua 9780812203936 0812203933

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ISBN 10: 0812203933

ISBN 13: 9780812203936

Author: Makau Mutua

Human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are by definition not part of the state. Rather, they are an element of civil society, the strands of the fabric of organized life in countries, and crucial to the prospect of political democracy. Civil society is a very recent phenomenon in East African nations, where authoritarian regimes have prevailed and human rights watchdogs have had a critical role to play. While the state remains one of the major challenges to human rights efforts in the countries of the region, other problems that are internal to the human rights movement are also of a serious nature, and they are many: What are the social bases of the human rights enterprise in transitional societies? What mandate can human rights NGOs claim, and in whose name do they operate?

Human Rights NGOs in East Africa critically explores the anatomy of the human rights movement in the East African region, examining its origins, challenges, and emergent themes in the context of political transitions. 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. The book brings together the most celebrated human rights thinkers in East Africa, enriched by contributions from their colleagues in South Africa and the United States.

To date, very little has been written about the struggles and accomplishments of civil society in the nations of East Africa. This book will fill that gap and prove to be an invaluable tool for understanding and teaching about human rights in this complex and vital part of the world.

Table of contents:

PART I: Defining Challenges to Civil Society in East Africa

CHAPTER ONE Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges

CHAPTER TWO To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya

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

CHAPTER FOUR NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective

CHAPTER FIVE Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity

CHAPTER SIX Women’s Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State

PART III: Donors and Grantees: Convergences and Divergences

CHAPTER SEVEN Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

CHAPTER EIGHT Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya

PART IV: State/Civil Society Relations

CHAPTER NINE State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change

CHAPTER TEN Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs

PART V: NGO Institutional Case Studies

CHAPTER ELEVEN The African Women’s Development and Communication Network: Pan-African Organizing in

CHAPTER TWELVE Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs

PART VI: South/South and North/South NGO Relations

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa

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