Introduction: Thinking About the Paradox and Promise of Human Rights and the United Nations Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Part1: The United Nations as Knowledge Producer
1. Knowledge Production: Gender, Race, Indigenous Peoples and Politics and the UN Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban 2. Towards Reproductive Justice in the Global Gender Equality Agenda: The UN and Canadas’s Compliance and Non-Compliance with Beijing and Beyond Nariya Khasanova 3. Human Rights for Human Remains: How International Frameworks Facilitate Transnational Knowledge Production Nicole Anderson
Part2: Stateless and Non-State Actors
4. Statelessness as a Window on the Paradox of the United Nations Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan 5. The Paradox of Visibility and the ILO’s Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention Annie Chau 6. The Paradox of Indigenous Peoples’ Participation at the UN: The Dance of Meaningful Change Against State Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity Sheryl Lightfoot and Utkarsh Khare
Part3: Global Challenges and Sovereign States
7. The UN’s Contradictory Impact and Failure to Protect Women in Humanitarian Settings: Racist Frames in Post-Earthquake Haiti Celia Romulus 8. Mandating Global Health to Foster Health Security: Spotlighting the Africa Health Strategy (2007-30) and the United Nations Christopher Isike 9. Will a Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment Address the Wrongs of Environmental Degradation? Karen Morrow 10. The UN Human Rights Paradox During the Interregnum: Yemen and Myanmar as Case Studies W. Andy Knight Afterword: Naming and Framing Paradox Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan