Stones of hope : how African activists reclaim human rights to challenge global poverty /

Stones of hope : how African activists reclaim human rights to challenge global poverty / edited by Lucie E. White and Jeremy Perelman ; with a foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa E. Sachs. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011. - xxvii, 249 p. ; 24 cm. - Stanford studies in human rights . - Stanford studies in human rights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A place to live : resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Felix Morka -- Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Duncan Kennedy -- Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice : South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- The evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania : structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Freeing Mohammed Zakari : rights as footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- Stones of hope : experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- The long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White.

9780804769198 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804769204 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Human rights advocacy.
Human rights advocacy--Africa--Case studies.
Social rights--Africa.
Human rights--Africa.
Defensa de los Derechos Humanos.
Defensa de los Derechos Humanos--Africa.

JC 599 / S881 2011

323.4