New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs

In the first book to track the growing intersection and even overlap of human rights and development NGOs, Paul Nelson and Ellen Dorsey employ perspectives from fields of human rights, international relations, the sociology of social movements and of complex organizations, and development theory, in order to better understand the evolution within these organizations. New Rights Advocacy includes rich case studies of internationally well-known individual NGOs such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, CARE, ActionAid, and Save the Children. Paul J. Nelson is associate professor and director of the division of international development in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh Ellen Dorsey is executive director of the Wallace Global Fund and has served as the chair of the board of Amnesty International USA