From ‘rights-based’ to ‘rights-framed’ approaches: a social constructionist view of human rights practice

Realizing the Right to Sanitation in Deprived Urban Communities: Meeting the Challenges of Collective Action, Coproduction, Affordability, and Housing Tenure

“…Hopefully, recognizing safe and clean sanitation as a human right (United Nations General Assembly, 2010) will help to overcome these challenges. As noted at the start of this article however, there are divergent views on how human rights should be pursued (Cornwall & Nyamu-Musembi, 2004;Miller, 2010;O'Leary, 2014), and reasons to believe that the more legalistic strategies are ill-suited to addressing urban sanitation deficiencies in low-income areas.…”

NGOs and Political Change: A History of the Australian Council for International Development

“…ACFID was therefore part of the ongoing lobbying and advocacy to gain recognition for developing countries' economic and social rights. Forty years later, in the 2000s, ACFID picked up rights-based development as an approach and urged AusAID to take it up as well (Miller 2010). Even though it was not called rights-based development in the 1960s and 1970s, many of the principles of good development practice of local control and participation advocated for at that time have become part of the rights-based development principles of the 1990s and 2000s (Kindornay et al 2012).…”

Rejecting “rights-based approaches” to development: Alternative engagements with human rights

“…The identification of these perspectives emerges directly from the analysis of the research project, and is based primarily on the types of questions campaigners appear to be asking in relation to the human rights discourse. These perspectives can be summarised by (Miller 2011). Essentially, the human rights discourse is being embedded through a process of framing, in a way that serves either a political analysis or faith-based teaching, like a tool advancing its work.…”