Edited by Tina Søreide, University of Bergen, Norway and Aled Williams, Chr. Michelsen Ins tute (CMI), Bergen, Norway All societies develop their own norms about what is fair behaviour and what is not. Violations of these norms, including acts of corruption, can collectively be described as forms of ‘grabbing’. This unique volume addresses how grabbing […]
Varun Gari and Siri Gloppen (2012)
in Polity vol. 44 no. 4 pp. 485-503
This article aims to organize thinking around human rights-based approaches to development (HRBAs) and to review available empirical evidence regarding their benefits, risks, and limitations. We propose a typology distinguishing four types of rights-based approaches: global compliance based on international and regional treaties; human rights-based programming on the part of donors and governments; rights talk; […]