Human Rights Strategies

Edited by Ingrid Westendorp, Senior Lecturer/Researcher, International Law and Woman and Law, Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Contents
Preface vii
List of contributors ix
PART I POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS OF
STRATEGIES
1 Introduction to human rights strategies 17
Ingrid Westendorp
2. The deliberative deficit of human rights strategies:
conceptual problems and practical implications 25
Gustavo Arosemena
3 Finding its voice: the OHCHR in the digital age; OHCHR,
human rights violations, social media and press releases 44
Conall Mallory and Rhona Smith
PART II STRATEGIC LITIGATION
4 Disability cause lawyering at the European Court of
Human Rights: lessons from strategic litigation on the
right to political participation 78
János Fiala-Butora, Matthew S. Smith and Michael Ashley Stein
5. Mobilising the European Social Charter’s collective
complaints procedure for legal and social change 108
Nikolaos A. Papadopoulos
6 Legal mobilisation and state incapacity – successes and
challenges in the struggle for scholar transport in South Africa 134
Nurina Ally, Demichelle Petherbridge and Tarryn Cooper-Bell
7. Sámi legal mobilisation to protect indigenous land rights
in Sweden: 160
Peter Johansson and Johan Karlsson Schaffer
PART III INFORMATION POLITICS
8 The Bangladesh government’s response to the human
rights reports of INGOs: an example of ‘information
politics’ from the Global South 188
Jobair Alam, Naimul Hasan and Tasnim Nusrat Reza
9 Emancipation through human rights practice: new
epistemology from rural West Bengal 211
Saori Murakami
10 Can talking about dignity support the growth of a human
rights culture? A view from Scotland 233
Elaine Webster