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Breaker of chains, diplomat of change? Amnesty International’s advocacy for human rights at the United Nations (1961-mid-80s)

Amélie Verfaillie
(2019)
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This doctoral thesis on the basis of archives analyzes the relation between the United Nations (UN) and the human rights NGO Amnesty International from 1961 onwards, when the latter was founded, until the first half of the 1980s. Through an extensive use of empirical data and the methods of contextual legal history and process tracing, this comprehensive study sheds light on Amnesty as a diplomat in the realm of international human rights law, with the UN as forum for its advocacy. In determining how Amnesty tried to influence UN decision-making processes to strengthen, create, interpret, implement and enforce international human rights norms in the studied timeframe, it gives a more holistic, in-depth and empirical account of the Amnesty-UN relation and maps how Amnesty started lobbying governments and influencing international public opinion to try to realize change.
Dit proefschrift is de neerslag van diepgravend rechtshistorisch archiefonderzoek naar de relatie tussen de Verenigde Naties (VN) en Amnesty International, sinds de oprichting van deze mensenrechten-ngo in 1961 en eindigend midden jaren 80. Via uitvoerig gebruik van empirische data en de onderzoeksmethoden van de contextuele rechtsgeschiedenis en process tracing, werpt de studie een licht op Amnesty als diplomaat in het domein van de internationale mensenrechten met de VN als forum voor advocacy. Het biedt een antwoord op de vraag hoe Amnesty besluitvormingsprocessen – en ook het ruimere beleid – in de VN trachtte te beïnvloeden om internationale mensenrechtennormen te versterken, creëren, interpreteren, implementeren en af te dwingen. Het onderzoek toont aan hoe Amnesty meer en meer deel werd van een gedecentraliseerd proces van normatieve en operationele autoriteit in het internationaal recht, waarbij het de VN gebruikte om haar interne mensenrechtenagenda door te drukken, hetzij via formele kanalen, hetzij via informele

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MLA
Verfaillie, Amélie. Breaker of Chains, Diplomat of Change? Amnesty International’s Advocacy for Human Rights at the United Nations (1961-Mid-80s). Ghent University. Faculty of Law and Criminology, 2019.
APA
Verfaillie, A. (2019). Breaker of chains, diplomat of change? Amnesty International’s advocacy for human rights at the United Nations (1961-mid-80s). Ghent University. Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent, Belgium.
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Verfaillie, Amélie. 2019. “Breaker of Chains, Diplomat of Change? Amnesty International’s Advocacy for Human Rights at the United Nations (1961-Mid-80s).” Ghent, Belgium: Ghent University. Faculty of Law and Criminology.
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Verfaillie, Amélie. 2019. “Breaker of Chains, Diplomat of Change? Amnesty International’s Advocacy for Human Rights at the United Nations (1961-Mid-80s).” Ghent, Belgium: Ghent University. Faculty of Law and Criminology.
Vancouver
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Verfaillie A. Breaker of chains, diplomat of change? Amnesty International’s advocacy for human rights at the United Nations (1961-mid-80s). [Ghent, Belgium]: Ghent University. Faculty of Law and Criminology; 2019.
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A. Verfaillie, “Breaker of chains, diplomat of change? Amnesty International’s advocacy for human rights at the United Nations (1961-mid-80s),” Ghent University. Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent, Belgium, 2019.
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  title        = {{Breaker of chains, diplomat of change? Amnesty International’s advocacy for human rights at the United Nations (1961-mid-80s)}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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