Does Counterterrorism Trump Human Rights? An Analysis of US Foreign Aid Hearings Pre- and Post-9/11

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-370
Author(s):  
Jessie G. Rumsey
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
International System ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Before And After

Abstract This article empirically evaluates the comparative importance of human rights and counterterrorism during Senate subcommittee hearings on US foreign aid. Drawing on, and further developing, international regime theory, the article predicts that the human rights regime will be resilient to the September 11 shock to the international system. Qualitative content analysis of discourse during the seven years before and after the 9/11 attacks demonstrates the predominance of the human rights regime—even post-9/11, when the counterterrorism regime emerged as a competitor. The article explains why this is the case and offers insight to the human rights regime’s resilience.

Making LGBT Rights into Human Rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Langlois
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International System ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The Status ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Key Aspects

This chapter commences by examining the status LGBT rights have achieved within the United Nations (UN) human rights system and reviews some key aspects of their trajectory. It considers how best to interpret the varying roles LGBT rights can play in the international system, given their new status, with a critical reading of Hillary Clinton’s famous and much lauded “gay rights are human rights” speech to the UN General Assembly in 2011. It then moves on to what LGBT rights as human rights might mean in those parts of the world where this status receives little if any formal institutional recognition, using the case of the Southeast Asian region, where a new human rights regime has been established but where non-normative sexuality and gender have been willfully excluded from its remit. The chapter considers what the politics of human rights mean for sexuality and gender-diverse people in this region with reference to two senses in which human rights claims are political: (1) activists and advocates push against the status quo to have sexuality and gender issues included in the human rights discussion and (2) resistance to this inclusion is often played out by a politicization of sexuality and gender that obscures other pressing issues. This chapter demonstrates both the profound and important advances that have been made for LGBT individuals and communities and the ways in which these successes generate political dynamics of their own, which must be carefully navigated in order to sustain the emancipatory potential of the movement.

From Above and Below

1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALISON BRYSK
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International System ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Response ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Affective Information ◽  
The Impact

What role does the international system play in amplifying the impact of domestic social movements on social change? The Argentine human rights movement reached the international system through the projection of cognitive and affective information—persuasion. International response was facilitated by the international human rights regime, and transnational nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) played a critical role. This challenge from above and below did have a clear impact on the target government and the development of broader mechanisms for the protection of human rights—even under the most severe conditions of repression and powerlessness.

Challenges of patient-focused care: Nurses’ descriptions and observations before and after intervention

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Helena Rosén ◽  
Rebecca Gagnemo Persson ◽  
Eva Persson
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Individual

The concept of patient-focused care aims to provide an environment in which the healthcare team focuses on the individual patient’s needs. In order to increase our understanding of how nurses perceive and conduct patient-focused care, the issue needs to be studied in various contexts. The aims of the study were to explore nurses’ descriptions of their patient-focused care, what took place during observed situations including the time spent, before and after the change of design from a more traditional to a single-bed hospital in Sweden. Non-participant observations with follow-up interviews were carried out. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Three categories emerged from the analysis: Barriers to being close to the patient, Desire to be close to the patient and The influence of environment on caring. The theme Presence or absence was interpreted as the latent meaning. The conclusion was that being present is crucial in nursing when providing compassionate and effective nursing care.

Significant aspects of nursing within the process of end-of-life communication in an oncological context

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelie Rylander ◽  
Stina Fredriksson ◽  
Ewa Stenwall ◽  
Lena-Karin Gustafsson
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Before And After ◽  
New Situation ◽  
End Of Life Communication ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

The complexity of end-of-life communications has previously been described and found to be given late in the patient’s palliative care. There is a need for earlier and more continuous end-of-life-communications throughout the patient’s care to reduce anxiety, confusion, and promote participation. Registered nurses (RNs) have a unique closeness to the patient and the ability to identify early the need for end-of-life communication. The aim of this study was to describe crucial aspects of nursing in end-of-life communication in an oncology context. The study was designed as a qualitative content analysis of in-depth interviews with RNs working in oncology in-patient care units. Two domains were identified: before, and after end-of-life communications, with the categories importance of being well prepared to identify both the patient’s and their family’s needs. Cooperation and interaction between physicians and RNs were crucial to be able to support patients and their relatives around the clock. The presence of RNs encouraged further conversations about the patients’ conditions to gain insight into the new situation. End-of-life communication should not only be medicine oriented and performed by physicians. Involvement of RNs’ expertise enables increased patient/relative participation as well as reduced anxiety and suffering, creating clarity and safety for all involved in care.

Violentization Theory and Genocide

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Winton
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Extreme Violence ◽  
Compare And Contrast

The purpose of this article is to use Lonnie Athens’ violentization theory to explain the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides. These two case studies are used to compare and contrast how the brutalization, defiance, violent dominance engagements, and virulency stages emerged prior to and during the genocides. Using published texts such as interviews with perpetrators, human rights reports, and court transcripts, qualitative content analysis is employed to test the fit between violentization theory and the two case studies. The results demonstrate that violentization theory is consistent with the data and provides an explanation of how the genocides developed and were enacted. Similarities and differences between Rwanda and Bosnia are described to explain how the perpetrators went through the violentization process, and an additional stage is added to illustrate extreme violence. Suggestions for further research using this model are provided.

Humanitized violence: Targeted killings and civilian deaths in the US war against the Islamic State

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bonds
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Total War ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
More Care ◽  
Administrative Procedures

Based on a qualitative content analysis of human rights reports, US military statements, and newspaper accounts, this article describes the ascendency of ‘humanitized violence,’ which characterizes airstrikes in the US war against the Islamic State (2014–2017). This hyper-rationalized violence utilizes precision weaponry, technical and administrative procedures to limit civilian deaths, and calculations to achieve goals in ‘proportionality.’ This method of violence is further accompanied by a discourse of precision, care, legality, and regret. The article further shows that leading nongovernmental critics of this violence largely accept its logic. Consequently, rather than offering opposition, humanitarian NGOs instead reinforce the humanitization of violence by calling on governments to be more precise and to exercise more care when striking enemy targets. Noting the high numbers of civilian deaths that can accompany humanitized violence, along with the US government’s continued capacity for total war, the author cautions that its rise does not necessarily portend a more peaceful future.

scholarly journals Human rights in selected daily newspaper in Serbia: A content analysis

2011 ◽  
pp. 547-558
Author(s):  
Dubravka Valic-Nedeljkovic
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

The paper presents the results of quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the six most influential daily newspapers in Serbia with a focus on writing about topics that are directly and indirectly related to human rights. It was noted that the selected media content was presented as internal - political thing especially when the question of State responsibility and the measures that have been undertaken by the State were raised, or when the subject of activity of state institutions was questioned. Most often quoted were representatives of the government as centers of political power, though members of marginalized groups were also not absent. The journalists showed sensitivity to marginalized actors of social practice.

scholarly journals Assessing the Effects of Directive 2014/95/EU on Nonfinancial Information Reporting: Evidence from Italian and Spanish Listed Companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Stefanía Carolina Posadas ◽  
Lara Tarquinio
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Progressive Reduction ◽  
Nonfinancial Information ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Information Reporting ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Eu

This paper explored the effects of new regulation on the disclosure of NFI in two European countries, Italy and Spain. The method used to develop the analysis is mainly qualitative. Content analysis was performed to verify the sustainability indicators disclosed by Italian and Spanish companies, listed on the FTSE MIB and IBEX 35 Indexes, before and after the Directive’s publication and implementation in national legislation. The level of NFI disclosure was scored using a disclosure index. The comparative analysis found a progressive reduction in disclosure levels for Italian companies compared with Spanish companies, for which an expansion of the disclosure was detected. Moreover, a reduced gap between the quantity of NFI reported in the two countries was found. This is one of the few studies to use a 3-year longitudinal analysis to investigate the EU Directive’s impact at the cross-country level.

The path to human rights in Romania: Emergent voice(s) of legal mobilization in prisons

2020 ◽  
pp. 147737082096657
Author(s):  
Cristina Dâmboeanu ◽  
Valentina Pricopie ◽  
Alina Thiemann
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Institutional Determinants ◽  
Institutional Status ◽  
The Individual

Starting from the premise that a better understanding of the legal efforts to implement European norms regarding human rights in prisons cannot overlook prisoners’ subjective experiences of rights, this article addresses the issue of prisoners’ complaints in Romania. Using survey data on a sample of 557 prisoners, it first seeks to examine how often prisoners lodge formal complaints and on what grounds, and how their complaints are framed. Second, employing models drawn from the legal mobilization literature, it tries to identify which are the individual and institutional determinants of prisoners’ complaints. Third, based on a unique qualitative (content) analysis of the comments prisoners made at the end of the survey, the article examines how prisoners articulate their discourse on rights’ claims. The article concludes by pointing to the relevance of institutional status variables as determinants of prisoners’ complaints and to the development of prisoners’ discourse embracing legal and procedural languages.

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