Is the rights focus the right focus? Nicaraguan responses to the rights agenda

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1329-1341

  Bradshaw, Sarah ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; HUMAN RIGHTS; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; WOMENS ORGANIZATION; WOMENS STATUS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NICARAGUA;

EID: 33750097598     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436590600933693     Document Type: Article

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22. Many thanks to all those interviewed for sharing their time and their thoughts. Particular thanks to Amy Bank, Vilma Castillo, Ana Criquillion and Teresa Hernández in Nicaragua, and to Andrea Cornwall, Maxine Molyneux and Brian Linneker in the UK for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Thanks also to International Cooperation for Development/ Progressio for their continued support and funding.
23. The author has worked with Puntos de Encuentro for many years and is not an 'objective' outsider in the processes discussed here. The paper reflects the author's views only and not the institutional position of Puntos de Encuentro. For more information on Puntos de Encuentro, see T Hernández & V Campanile, 'Feminism at work: A case study of transforming power relations in everyday life', in H van Dam, A Khadar & M Valk (eds), Institutionalizing Gender Equality: Commitment, Policy and Practice. A Global Source Book, The Netherlands: Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), 2000; and www.puntos.org.ni.
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