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590 - Regular Session. Transforming Institutional Practices of Human Rights

Tue, August 19, 2:30 to 4:10pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

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This panel explores diverse sociological approaches to understanding the institutional production and practices of human rights. It also provides new theoretical insights and empirical evidence, drawing upon a wide variety of institutions (NGOs, states, truth commissions, news media, and others) and contexts from around the world, to suggest meaningful possibilities for, and obstacles to, transforming the contested development of human rights.

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