Allegations of CIA Assistance to Osama Bin Laden
by Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome, and John McBrewster
Human Rights NGOs in East Africa (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are by definition not part of the state. Rather, they are an element of civil society, the strands of the fabric of organized life in countries, and crucial to the prospect of political democracy. Civil society is a very recent phenomenon in East African nations, where authoritarian regimes have prevailed and human rights watchdogs have had a critical role to play. While the state remains one of the major challenges to human rights efforts in the...
European Civil Society on the Road to Success? (European Civil Society, #1)
NGO and Social Movement Networking in the World Social Forum
by Raul Acosta
Theologies and Practices of Inclusion
Inclusion has recently become a high priority issue within the development sector, brought to the fore by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development's commitment to leave no one behind. Practices within the remit of inclusion often focus on increasing access and meaningful participation, with emphasis placed on bringing those at the margins to the centre. Theologies and Practices of Inclusion challenges such centre-focused practices from a global perspective, based on research conducted within...
Contributions of Ngos for Social Development Andhra Pradesh (Vizianagaram)
by Karanam Iswa Bhushan
NGDs, Democratisation and the Regulatory State
by Giampiero Alhadeff, Rosle Chapman, Jonathan Cohen, Jacqueline De Groote, Justin Greenwood, Colin Hay, Beate Kohlerkoch, and Nancy North
Collective action by firms is a central phenomenon in society, seen for example in standards setting, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and in relation to climate change, environmental and human rights issues. This incisive book reveals how firms set up specific devices, referred to by the authors as FCADs (Firms' Collective Action Devices), of which trade associations and chambers of commerce are the traditional forms, and investigates how firms organize themselves collectively, and their impact o...
Gendered Political Participation in Civil Society Organizations
by MD Mokhlesur Rahman
