1. Gender in Practice: Gender in International Human Rights NGOs.
- Author
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Gray, Christina
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WOMEN'S rights , *NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations , *INTERNATIONAL agencies , *NONPROFIT organizations , *HUMAN rights advocacy - Abstract
This paper examines gendered practices and conceptions of gender in Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. International human rights standards form the foundation for the work of both NGOs. Both also maintain women's rights campaigns, and conduct research on women's human rights. How are these advocacy projects concieved of and implemented at a local level in these two NGOs? I compare Amnesty and Human Rights Watch by analyzing a) how activists talk about gender and understand gender; b) how are women's rights campaigns are implemented locally and c) gendered divisions of labor within NGO campaigns. The goal of this paper is to develop theoretical and practical insight into how concepts of gender work in international human rights advocacy. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008