Decolonial Human Rights Practice

Abstract This book explores the ongoing struggle of human rights organizations to confront and dismantle the coloniality of human rights advocacy. It offers an account of power in transnational advocacy partnerships and networks, and of the contested power relations among global north international organizations and global south groups. Through a granular study of everyday advocacy practice, and building on ongoing debate and action among human rights advocates and scholars, the book offers a framework for understanding the contemporary forms and effects of global north international organizations’ domination. It shows how human rights groups are seeking to shift power and transform human rights practice, and examines the potential and limits of their tactics for decolonial resistance and allyship. By bringing together the expertise of activists around the world, the book contributes to efforts to understand power and (in)equity among human rights organizations, buttressing ongoing struggles to transform human rights advocacy.