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Join the chorus, avoid the spotlight: the effect of neighborhood and social dynamics on Human Rights Organization shaming / Bell, Sam R; Clay, K Chad; Murdie, Amanda

Murdie, Amanda	Journal Article
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Which countries are likely to be ignored for their human rights abuses? This article focuses on one particular way that cases of human rights abuse might be overlooked by human rights organizations (HROs): the relative visibility of the state’s abusiveness vis-à-vis its geographic and social peers. HROs are more likely to target abusive states that are located in regions with more HRO resources and/or are surrounded by states that demonstrate higher respect for human rights, as these abuses will stand out much more clearly. Further, human rights treaties can be used by abusive states as a form of strategic “social camouflage,” with states trying to minimize the risk of HRO attention by ratifying human rights treaties to look more like their rights-respecting peers. Using a cross-national time-series research design, this article finds much support for the argument: abusive states that “join the chorus” avoid HRO attention.

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Human Rights ; International Organization ; Domestic Politics ; International treaties ; Human Rights Organization ; International Law ;
International Relations ; HRO

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ID: 144873

Responding to terrorism? human rights organization shaming and terrorist attacks / Asal, Victor; Deloughery, Kathleen ; Murdie, Amanda

Asal, Victor	Article
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Why do Human Rights Organizations (HROs) target or “shame” countries for human rights abuses? The literature using country-level factors to explain why one country is likely to be targeted over another is growing but many questions still remain. Terrorist activity in a country should have a positive effect on the amount of shaming directed at a country. HROs are in the publicity business and have organizational interests to shame states already receiving attention. Findings show that there is a connection between certain types of transnational terrorist incidents occur in a country and the amount of HRO shaming of governments, even after accounting for the human rights practices within the state.

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Terrorism ; Terrorist Attacks ; Human Rights Organization

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ID: 107238

Twenty years later, Russians' rights are still imperiled / Cosgrove, Simon

Cosgrove, Simon	Journal Article
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2011.

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Human Rights ; Russia ; Political Rights ; Russian History ; Human Rights Organization ; Reformist Political Leadership ;
Soviet Union

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