Practicing human rights in the Arab world : international law in 20th century advocacy
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores how several Arab NGOs in Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Kuwait practiced human rights from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Drawing on institutional archives and interviews, it argues that these organizations provide new insights into the history of human rights both regionally and internationally. Located in a region battered by colonialism, foreign exploitation, and domestic autocracy, they are a valuable entry-point for considering the universality of rights and the extent to which Cold War politics shaped grassroots advocacy. The division between political and civil rights, and economic, cultural and social rights—so salient on the international level—was of minimal importance in shaping human rights advocacy on the ground. Instead, NGOs embraced those rights which most directly spoke to their particular political challenges and prioritized the most egregious state practices. Human rights activists found synergy between rights and nationalism, Socialism, democracy, and constitutional monarchy. Rights were not a single paradigm for how to organize political life, but part of several different visions that arose in response to the aftermath of the loss of the 1967 war with Israel. The 1970s and 1980s were period of both continuity, as advocates drew on the existing content of recent international treaties, and innovation, as they transformed the law from a text to a shared practice of resistance.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Duryea, Catherine Baylin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Beinin, Joel, 1948- |
| Degree supervisor | Yaycioglu, Ali |
| Thesis advisor | Beinin, Joel, 1948- |
| Thesis advisor | Yaycioglu, Ali |
| Thesis advisor | Martinez, Jenny S |
| Degree committee member | Martinez, Jenny S |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Catherine Baylin Duryea. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/wz610pk5067 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Catherine Baylin Duryea
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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