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A question of power: urbanizing the human rights framework.(TO THE POINT)
IN 1964, Malcolm X pressed the need for the civil rights movement to expand its scope and adopt a human rights framework:
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".... if they would expand their civil rights movement to a human rights movement it would internationalize it. Now, as a civil rights movement, it remains within the confines of American domestic policy ... whereas if they expanded the civil rights movement to a human rights movement then they would be eligible to take the case of the Negro to the United Nations .... our African brothers and our Asian brothers and Latin American brothers can place it on the agenda at the General Assembly ... and Uncle Sam has no more say-so in it then."
Malcolm's comments were at the height of a national civil rights movement that had hit the limits of its ability to seek redress within the racist and exploitative liberal democracy of the United States. The United Nations was an alternate body outside the purview of what Malcolm and others viewed as the non-reformable U.S. government.
Another compelling use of the human rights framework was more recently put forward by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in Kentucky. CIW has successfully built an organization of migrant farm workers who are challenging large and powerful corporations for better wages. They have been successful in their fight against Yum! Brands, Inc., the parent company of Taco Bell, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, A question of power: urbanizing the human rights framework.(TO THE...