TY - JOUR
T1 - Translating rights and articulating alternatives
T2 - Rights-based approaches in ActionAid’s work on unpaid care
AU - Kelly, Ruth
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The adoption of a rights-based approach at ActionAid has transformed the non-governmental organisation’s structure, processes and priorities. Yet the organisation may have underestimated the tension between pre-existing participatory work and rights-based approaches, and between grassroots definitions of rights and the rights prioritised in national and international advocacy and campaigning. By looking at the evolution of ActionAid’s work on unpaid care, we can see how the organisation has built on work translating rights to make them relevant for local communities and begun to promote alternative articulations of rights and of rights-based approaches inspired by participatory work with communities.
AB - The adoption of a rights-based approach at ActionAid has transformed the non-governmental organisation’s structure, processes and priorities. Yet the organisation may have underestimated the tension between pre-existing participatory work and rights-based approaches, and between grassroots definitions of rights and the rights prioritised in national and international advocacy and campaigning. By looking at the evolution of ActionAid’s work on unpaid care, we can see how the organisation has built on work translating rights to make them relevant for local communities and begun to promote alternative articulations of rights and of rights-based approaches inspired by participatory work with communities.
U2 - 10.1080/13642987.2017.1314646
DO - 10.1080/13642987.2017.1314646
M3 - Article
SN - 1364-2987
VL - 23
SP - 862
EP - 879
JO - The International Journal of Human Rights
JF - The International Journal of Human Rights
IS - 5
ER -