U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND PLAN COLOMBIA

Non-governmental organizations claim to play a central role in defining U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the field of human rights. Here, I will examine the role of human rights andhumanitarian groups in the debates over U.S. foreign policy towards Colombia, focusing on the design and subsequent...

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Autor principal: Winifred Tate
Formato: Artículo científico
Publicado: Universidad de Los Andes 2009
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Relaciones Internacionales
Grassroots mobilization
NGOs
military assistance
U.S.-Colombia relations
Acceso en línea:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81211898004
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-003&d=81211898004oai
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Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) de Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
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topic Relaciones Internacionales
Grassroots mobilization
NGOs
military assistance
U.S.-Colombia relations
spellingShingle Relaciones Internacionales
Grassroots mobilization
NGOs
military assistance
U.S.-Colombia relations
Winifred Tate
U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND PLAN COLOMBIA
topic_facet Relaciones Internacionales
Grassroots mobilization
NGOs
military assistance
U.S.-Colombia relations
description Non-governmental organizations claim to play a central role in defining U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the field of human rights. Here, I will examine the role of human rights andhumanitarian groups in the debates over U.S. foreign policy towards Colombia, focusing on the design and subsequent additional appropriations for Plan Colombia, a multi-billion dollar aid package beginning in 2000. I argue that NGOs were able to build on the legacy of prior human rights activism focusing on Latin America, but failed to achieve significant grassroots mobilization around this issue. I examine the structural issues limiting such mobilization, as well as exploring how NGOs did leverage legislative conditions placed on the assistance package to keep human rights concerns part of the debates over U.S. policy. This case study will contribute to the historical record of how policy is made and developed, adding to the growing literature exploring how human rights claims translate into specific governmental policies.
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title U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND PLAN COLOMBIA
title_short U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND PLAN COLOMBIA
title_full U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND PLAN COLOMBIA
title_fullStr U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND PLAN COLOMBIA
title_full_unstemmed U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND PLAN COLOMBIA
title_sort u.s. human rights activism and plan colombia
publisher Universidad de Los Andes
publishDate 2009
url http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81211898004
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