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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.

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Stones of Hope shows how African human rights activists have opened new possibilities for justice in the everyday lives of the world's most impoverished peoples.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: White, Lucie, 1949-, Perelman, Jeremy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011.
Series:Stanford studies in human rights.
Subjects:
Human rights advocacy > Africa > Case studies.
Social rights > Africa.
Human rights > Africa.
Human rights.
Human rights advocacy.
Social rights.
Africa.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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