Between Sanctions and Elections
Donors' Human Rights Performance
Published on 1. April 1997
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-85567-470-7 (ISBN)
Description
This text reviews human rights policies of individual donor governments and the European Union. Donors' practices are examined through a selection of cases in each decade: Cuba, Rhodesia, South Africa and Israel in the 1960s; Uganda, Chile and Ethiopia in the 1970s; and Turkey, Indonesia, Burma and Chile in the 1980s. Electoralism is discussed as a recent complement to continued punitiveness. The book concludes that neither sanctions nor elections benefited human rights because donors' practice has been slanted against vulnerable recipients, and undermined human rights protection by reliance on external policing and sanctioning.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index, tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
589 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85567-470-7 (9781855674707)
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Content
Part 1 Donors' human rights policies: profile of aid - wither human rights?; individual donors; European Union; aid allocations and human rights. Part 2 Donors' sanctions through three decades: early cases; controversies in the 1980s; sanctions in the 1990s - multiplication and privatization. Part 3 Enter electoralism: donors' reorientation to democracy; electoralism and Africa. Summing up: the impact of sanctions; human rights correctives for elections.