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Article: Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations.(Book review)
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- Ethics & International Affairs
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- September 1, 2007
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Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations., Daniel A. Bell and Jean-Marc Coicaud, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 334 pp., $34.99 paper.
Between 2002 and 2005, the United Nations University and the City University of Hong Kong organized a series of "dialogues" about the ethical challenges facing international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs). Participants included "high-level representatives of INGOs" and "academic theorists" who study human rights (p. ix). The result is this fascinating and timely volume, which addresses not only human rights narrowly construed, but also ...