European civil society and human rights advocacy

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European civil society and human rights advocacy

Statement of responsibility

Markus Thiel

Creator

• Thiel, Markus, 1973 May 9-
• Thiel, Markus, 1973 May 9-

Author

• Thiel, Markus, 1973 May 9-
• Thiel, Markus, 1973 May 9-

Subject

• Civil society -- European Union countries
• Europe -- European Union countries
• European Union, Agency for Fundamental Rights
• European Union, Agency for Fundamental Rights
• European Union, Agency for Fundamental Rights
• Human rights
• Human rights -- European Union countries
• Human rights -- European Union countries
• Human rights advocacy
• Human rights advocacy -- European Union countries
• Civil rights
• Civil rights -- European Union countries
• Civil rights -- European Union countries
• Civil society

Language

eng

Summary

Adherence to basic human rights norms has become an expected feature of states throughout the world. In Europe, the promotion and protection of human rights through national governments has been enhanced by the diversity of intergovernmental organizations committed to this cause. The latest addition to the continent's rights organizations arrived ten years ago when, based on the EU's Lisbon Treaty, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was created as a functional institution to highlight and improve human rights within EU member states. In contrast to other regulatory agencies in the EU, the FRA provides a research-based advisory function for EU institutions and legislation and performs a public-diplomacy function in promoting fundamental rights across EU member states. The linking of civil society with internal rights policies has yet produced very little scholarship. Markus Thiel's European Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy not only fills this vacuum: it also offers a timely analysis in the context of Europe's proliferating human rights challenges, like the current refugee crises and the nationalist responses that geopolitical changes have provoked. European Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy examines the interaction between the FRA and hundreds of transnational civil society organizations working with and on behalf of vulnerable populations in EU member states and probes the high normative standards of human rights attainment and transnational participatory governance in the EU

Member of

• Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Cataloging source

PU/DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Pennsylvania Studies In Human Rights