role of non legal bodies in human rights Flashcards
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non government organisations as a non legal body of human rights
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- operate like charities, helping groups and individuals free from government bureaucracy
- examples: Amnesty, Red Cross, Human rights watch
- although not enforceable, they name and shame human rights violations as an influence to put pressure on governments to change
- raise awareness about human rights violations and abuses to pressure govermments to change human rights violations
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media as a non legal body of human rights
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- operate similar to NGOs in ‘naming and shaming’ human rights violators
- publicity as a pressure point for people to criticise government policies to change the law
- example: the attempt for the ACT to legalise gay marriage in 2013 was due to media publicity
- example: Kony 2012 campaign, a viral video raising awareness of the issue of child soldiers, where 100million views of the video in one week and 5 million tweets in one week > increased media awareness of child soldiers > called for the prosecution of Joseph Kony
