Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series editors' preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: reconsidering human rights from below
- 2 Sites of rights resistance
- 3 Freedom from want revisited from a local perspective: evolution and challenges ahead
- 4 Relevance of human rights in the glocal space of politics: how to enlarge democratic practice beyond state boundaries and build up a peaceful world order
- 5 The local relevance of human rights: a methodological approach
- 6 Ensuring compliance with decisions by international and regional human rights bodies: the case of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- 7 Building rights-based health movements: lessons from the Peruvian experience
- 8 Defining human rights when economic interests are high: the case of the western Shoshone
- 9 Struggling to localise human rights: the experience of indigenous peoples in Chile
- 10 Enforcing environmental rights under Nigeria's 1999 Constitution: the localisation of human rights in the Niger Delta region
- 11 Conflict resolution through cultural rights and cultural wrongs: the Kosovo example
- 12 Epilogue: widening the perspective on the local relevance of human rights
- Index
- References
7 - Building rights-based health movements: lessons from the Peruvian experience
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series editors' preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: reconsidering human rights from below
- 2 Sites of rights resistance
- 3 Freedom from want revisited from a local perspective: evolution and challenges ahead
- 4 Relevance of human rights in the glocal space of politics: how to enlarge democratic practice beyond state boundaries and build up a peaceful world order
- 5 The local relevance of human rights: a methodological approach
- 6 Ensuring compliance with decisions by international and regional human rights bodies: the case of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- 7 Building rights-based health movements: lessons from the Peruvian experience
- 8 Defining human rights when economic interests are high: the case of the western Shoshone
- 9 Struggling to localise human rights: the experience of indigenous peoples in Chile
- 10 Enforcing environmental rights under Nigeria's 1999 Constitution: the localisation of human rights in the Niger Delta region
- 11 Conflict resolution through cultural rights and cultural wrongs: the Kosovo example
- 12 Epilogue: widening the perspective on the local relevance of human rights
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
In the six decades since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proclaimed as a ‘common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations’, human rights has become the hegemonic discourse for social emancipation around the world. Yet, from its inception the legalism and abstraction of the international framework have posed challenges for local resistance movements who sought to use rights in their social struggles, including struggles relating to health. Further, it has often been difficult to find allies within the health field itself, pervaded as it is by the paternalism of clinical medicine and the utilitarianism of conventional public health.
It is only in the last fifteen years or so that countries have seen a proliferation of rights-based movements for health. All of these health rights movements share a common focus on issues of equality and non-discrimination, accountability and participation by the people whose lives are affected by health programmes. A central notion across all rights-based approaches to health lies in converting the beneficiaries of health and development programmes into claims-holders who can demand that the state, or other actors, comply with certain obligations.
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- The Local Relevance of Human Rights , pp. 176 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011