Challenges and opportunities in implementing a rights-based approach to development: An Oxfam America perspective

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 268-301

  Offenheiser, Raymond C ^b   Holcombe, Susan H ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Civil society organizations; Economic and social rights; Equity; Globalization and rights; Human rights; Implementing rights; Justice; Legitimacy; Oxfam; Right to development; Rights; Rights based approach; Social contract; The state and rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038519158     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764003032002006     Document Type: Review

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