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5 - A Human Rights Culture of Argument

The Language of Care and Law in Urgent Action Appeals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

Ann Marie Clark
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Indiana
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Explores the contents of the thousands of Urgent Action alerts issued by Amnesty International from 1975-2007 on behalf of individuals at risk from human rights violations. The chapter references to care, law, and justice as part of a distinctive culture of human rights argument. By analyzing references to law and aspects of justice in the thousands of UAs, the chapter charts change and continuity in human rights appeals over many years. Throughout the time period, the alerts give voice to the active care found in the justice of neighborhood by expressing, for example, fear for a person’s safety, and by inquiring about alleged ill-treatment of people by authorities or their agents. Appeals to global human rights norms in the documents indicate the emerging importance of law as a tool for the political realization of justice at the global level.

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Demands of Justice
The Creation of a Global Human Rights Practice
, pp. 94 - 125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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