Human rights advocates are loathe to accept corporate funding, even in pursuit of worthy initiatives. But companies facing human rights challenges are eager for credible NGO guidance and ready to finance it. How can these corporate funds be tapped to support watchdogs without compromising their in
The diversity of human rights movements defies elite/mass labels. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debates on Emerging Powers and Human Rights and Human rights: mass or elite movement? Español.
A paradigm shift in funding from human rights toward 'investments' and 'business solutions' is threatening women’s rights organizing and the rights-based approach to development. We need greater understanding of these new trends and engagement with new players. A contribution to the openGlobalRigh
Researchers must analyze both vertical relationships between human rights leaders and their base, as well as horizontal relations between the human rights movement and other actors. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debates on Emerging Powers and Human Rights and Human rights: mass or elite m
The rights based approach to development is increasingly popular, but more rights-based money isn’t the answer to the world’s ills. Rights-based practitioners will have to do a better job of evaluating their own efforts, helping local communities organize, and overcoming disincentives to collabora
Does the human rights movement's effectiveness hinge upon the trust and diffuse support of ordinary citizens? Not necessarily. Well-crafted, elite-level strategies can help NGOs effectively promote progressive reform. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debates on Emerging Powers and Human Righ
Southern populations and activists don’t need leadership from northern human rights organizations. Instead, northern groups should support the most deprived southern populations in their own efforts to hold their leadership accountable. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on Emerging Pow
Using the first-ever data-driven effort to track global human rights funding, representatives from two major global funding networks based in the U.S. and Mexico respond to James Ron on the current trends and opportunities of grants for human rights initiatives around the world. A contribution to
Too few foundations support human rights in the Global South, and many of those northern funders who do support rights continue to make old mistakes. There are new players in unexpected places, however, who offer promising examples. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on Funding for Huma
Despite enjoying a fair bit of local support, local human rights organizations (LHROs) in the Global South are still largely dependent on foreign funds. To better tap into local resource pools, LHROs will have to rethink their funding strategies, and perhaps reconsider some of their activities. A
The Israeli pathology of dispossession and exploitation of Palestinians is deeply entrenched, and local civil societies have had limited capacity to effect change. To halt these unlawful practices, rights groups can and should enlist third states based on their domestic obligations to bring them i
Human rights continue to remain unacknowledged as being at the heart of many social movement struggles. But like any language of power, they are subject to processes of institutionalization. Can they remain a source of empowerment? A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on Emerging Powers a
