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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Amnesty International and Women's Rights
    sub title: Feminist Strategies, Leadership Commitment and Internal Resistances
  name:
    name part: Ganzfried, Miriam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    place:
      place term: DE
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (320 pages).
  abstract: Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights, Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archive material from the Swiss and the German AI sections, she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase its work on women's rights. Additionally, the book demonstrates that, despite the leadership's commitment to the Stop Violence Against Women campaign, internal resistance hampered the integration of women's rights into the organization's overall work.
  table of contents: Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of graphs -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Purpose and delimitation -- 1.2 Significance -- 1.3 Theoretical paradigm -- 1.4 Structure of the study -- 2. Problem and research questions -- 2.1 A gender-biased understanding of human rights -- 2.2 Contestation of the traditional understanding of human rights -- 2.3 Response of human rights NGOs -- 2.4 Research questions -- 3. Conceptualization -- 4. Focused literature review -- 4.1 Social constructivism in International Relations
  table of contents: 4.2 The role of norm entrepreneurs in the emergence of international norms -- 4.3 Comparatively powerless actors' strategies for influencing norm dynamics -- 4.4 Norm diffusion and norm dynamics -- 4.5 The study's theoretical contribution -- 5. Data and method(s) -- 5.1 The origin and characteristics of Grounded Theory -- 5.2 Reasons for the use of grounded theory techniques -- 5.3 Case selection -- 5.4 Data corpora -- 5.4.1 Criteria for data collection and generation -- 5.4.2 Written archival documents -- 5.4.3 Interview data -- 5.5 Data analysis
  table of contents: 6. AI's structure, decision-making, and policy implementation -- 6.1 Brief overview of the development of AI's work in general -- 6.2 A gendered human rights NGO -- 6.3 Internal structure -- the international level -- 6.4 Internal structure -- the national levels -- 6.4.1 The Swiss section -- 6.4.2 The German section -- 6.5 Decision-making and implementation -- 6.5.1 The international level -- The IS as a powerfull central node -- 6.5.2 The national level -- AI sections -- 7. The beginnings of AI's interest in VAW -- 7.1 The international level -- 7.1.1 Policy development 1989-2001
  table of contents: 7.1.1.1 ICM decisions indirectly concerning AI's work on VAW -- 7.1.1.2 ICM decisions directly concerning AI's work on VAW -- 7.1.2 Policy Implementation -- AI's activities on VAW within the frame of the mandate -- 7.1.2.1 Women in the Front Line -- 7.1.2.2 Human Rights are Women's Rights -- 7.1.2.3 Take a Step to Stamp Out Torture -- 7.1.3 Feminist strategizing -- 7.1.4 AI's work on women's rights discussed -- 7.2 The national levels -- 7.2.1 The Swiss section -- 7.2.1.1 First collective and individual initiatives -- 7.2.1.2 A women's network emerges -- 7.2.1.3 Ignorance rather than opposition
  table of contents: 7.2.2 The German section -- 7.2.2.1 Sektionsarbeitskreis Menschenrechtsverletzungen an Frauen -- 7.2.2.2 The MaF's successful attempts to influence decision-making -- 7.2.2.3 Disinterest regarding women's rights -- 7.3 Intermediate conclusions -- 8. The challenges to make women's rights part of AI's DNA -- 8.1 The international level -- 8.1.1 Policy development 2002-2010 -- 8.1.1.1 ICM Decisions indirectly concerning AI's work on VAW -- 8.1.1.2 Decisions directly concerning AI's work on VAW -- 8.1.2 Policy Implementation- Focus and content of the SVAW campaign
  target audience: specialized
  note: Miriam Ganzfried.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Amnesty International; Women's Rights; Human Rights Organizations; Networks; Civil Society; Politics; Law; Human Rights; Social Movements; Political Science
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
  classification: 305.42
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Edition Politik ; 128
  identifier: 9783839460085
  identifier: 3839460085
  identifier: 9783837660081
  identifier: 3837660087
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: LUN
    record creation date: 211217
    record change date: 20240212223739.0
    record identifier: in00004776121
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng