How Activist Groups Use Human Rights Rhetoric in the Fight for Reproductive Rights and Abortion: The Cases of The United States, Germany, and The Netherlands
Human rights advocates often argue their primary power is that claiming them and deploying human rights rhetoric adds legitimacy and authority to a cause. Yet our understanding of if, how, and why human rights language is used in the political struggle for equality is incomplete. In this thesis I examine the key question of the use of human rights rhetoric and claiming by activists and governmental actors via the struggle for reproductive rights, especially for access to abortion. Through a comparative case study of the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany, this paper finds that legisla... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
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Trinity College Digital Repository
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Schlagwörter: | Human Rights / Abortion / Advocacy / Activism / Constitutional Law / Human Rights Law / Social Justice / Women's Studies |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26820455 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/1026 |