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The securitization that accompanied many national responses after 11 September 2001, along with the shortfalls of neo-liberalism, created waves of opposition to the growth of the human rights regime. By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human Rights analyses the way forward in an era of many challenges.

Through an examination of both global and local challenges to human rights, including loopholes, backlash, accountability, and new opportunities to move forward, the expert contributors analyse trends across multiple-issue areas. These include; international institutions, humanitarian action, censorship and communications, discrimination, human trafficking, counter-terrorism, corporate social responsibility and civil society and social movements. The topical chapters also provide a comprehensive review of the widening citizenship gaps in human rights coverage for refugees, women’s rights in patriarchal societies, and civil liberties in chronic conflict.

This timely study will be invaluable reading for academics, upper-level undergraduates, and those studying graduate courses relating to international relations, human rights, and global governance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Contracting human rights
Alison Brysk

Part I Gaps
2. Contracting the refugee regime: The global citizenship gap
Alison Brysk

3. Has the occupation occupied Israel?
Gershon Shafir

4. Expanding extractive industries, contracting indigenous rights? Gains, setbacks and missed opportunities in Latin America
Claire Wright

5. The bottom two billion: The global expansion of urban slums and second-class citizenship
Natasha Bennett

Part II Backlash
6. The human rights costs of NGOs’ naming and shaming campaigns
Clair Apodaca

7. Perils of success: Backlash and resistance to LGBT rights in domestic and international politics
Phillip M. Ayoub

8. Human rights and democracy promotion in times of contraction: EU human rights and democratization policies in Egypt
Felipe Gómez Isa

9. From lawless to secret law: The United States, the CIA, and extra-judicial killings
Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi

Part III Accountability
10. Whither accountability? Counter-terrorism and human rights at the United Nations Security Council
George Andreopoulos

11. Backlash and international human rights courts
Wayne Sandholtz, Yining Bei, and Kayla Caldwell

12. Retreat or retrenchment? An analysis of the International Criminal Court’s failure to prosecute presidents
Kirsten Ainley

13. Searching for accountability of the private sector: Civil liability of corporations for trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation in the European context
Julia Planitzer, Nora Katona, Barbara Linder and Karin Lukas

Part IV Opportunities
14. Business and human rights: Exploring the limits of an expanding agenda on corporate responsibility
Anne Vestergaard and Michael Etter

15. Digital media and human rights: Loomio, Statistics New Zealand, and gender identity
Cynthia Stohl, Michael Stohl and Shiv Ganesh

16. Beyond global vs. local: Islam, feminism, and women’s rights in Morocco
Jesilyn Faust

17. Contesting the citizenship gap: Advocacy, core rights, and women’s rights reform
Feryal M. Cherif

18. Conclusion: From hope to fear in the millennium: Human rights in an age of backlash
Michael Stohl

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