The pornography of poverty : a cautionary fundraising tale / Bette Plewes and Rieky Stuart -- An imperfect process : funding human rights--a case study / Mona Younis -- Transformational development as the key to housing rights / Steven Weir -- Human rights INGOs, the North-South gap : the challenge of normative and empirical learning / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Dilemmas facing INGOs in coalition-occupied Iraq / Lyal Sunga -- Human rights in action : supporting human rights work in authoritarian countries / Birgit Lindsnaes, Hans-Otto Sano, and Hatla Thelle -- Driving without a map : implementing legal projects in China aimed at improving human rights / Sophia Woodman -- Normative compliance and hard bargaining : China's strategies and tactics in response to international human rights criticism / Sun Zhe -- Defending economic, social and cultural rights : practical issues faced by an international human rights organization / Kenneth Roth -- Thinking through social and economic rights / Neera Chandhoke -- Amnesty International and economic, social and cultural rights / by Curt Goering -- Moral priorities for international human rights NGOs / Thomas W. Pogge -- The problem of doing good in a world that isn't : reflections on the ethical challenges facing INGOs / Joseph H. Carens -- Conclusion: International NGOs as collective mobilization of transnational solidarity : implications for human rights work at the United Nations / Jean-Marc Coicaud.

xiv, 320 p.

On t.p. and cover: United Nations University.
"This book emerged from a multiyear international project, Ethics in Action: The Successes, Compromises, and Setbacks of International Human Rights Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs), sponsored by the United Nations University ... and the City University of Hong Kong."--p. ix.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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