Critical Legal Empowerment for Human Rights
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This chapter argues that a deep change in the practice of human rights is needed to alter the basic conditions of those who experience persistent human rights violations. Legal empowerment—led by the grassroots, with lawyers and other professionals in supporting, rather than leading, roles—is a crucial part of the justice transformation that is needed. When rights-holders directly engage institutions affecting their lives, they demand that systems become more accessible and responsive to the daily challenges of the people. And when the law and legal systems are actively harming marginalized and oppressed peoples, a critical form of legal empowerment can ensure that they are the authors of their own liberation and demand transformation of the law. Human rights advocates should embrace this reality by becoming reliable partners to movements led by the communities experiencing grave rights deprivations.
Source Publication
Legal Mobilization for Human Rights
Source Editors/Authors
Gráinne de Búrca
Publication Date
2022
Recommended Citation
Satterthwaite, Margaret L., "Critical Legal Empowerment for Human Rights" (2022). Faculty Chapters. 1785.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1785
