Table 71: A Taxonomy of the Deployment of Human Rights Agency Women’s Activists’ Perception of Represented NGO Representation of the Function of Human Rights and Locus of Agency Socio-Economic Activity Human Rights Frameworks Women’s Contexts Component One External This form of agency Rescuing women West Bengal: A yardstick of the failure of the state to Government’s centres on activists’ failure in its duty or beneficiaries by fulfil its international obligations in relation to violations of deployment of human protect women removing them from basic universal human rights. rights. This agency is against violations coercive or shaped in response to of basic human threatening situated experiences of rights. environments. local socio-economic structures. This overlying orientation represents perceived challenges to the implementation of the human rights and human rights women’s frameworks depicted in accounts. activists’ Component Two Private sphere Empowering women West Bengal: As a potential political tool to underpin a perceived as beneficiaries to take political community which reaffirms universal values. coercive and action to remove threatening. themselves from London: Represented as a core set of values ? in coercion, for work. organisations’ example, from domestic violence.
Table 71: A Taxonomy of the Deployment of Women’s Human Rights Agency Locus of Agency Activists’ Perception of Socio-Economic Contexts Represented NGO Activity Representation of the Function of Human Rights and Women’s Human Rights Frameworks External This form of agency centres on activists’ deployment of human rights. This agency is shaped in response to situated experiences of local socio-economic structures. This overlying orientation represents perceived challenges to the implementation of the human rights and women’s human rights frameworks depicted in activists’ accounts. Component One Government’s failure in its duty or protect women against violations of basic human rights. Rescuing women beneficiaries by removing them from coercive or threatening environments. West Bengal: A yardstick of the failure of the state to fulfil its international obligations in relation to violations of basic universal human rights. Component Two Private sphere perceived as coercive and threatening. Empowering women beneficiaries to take action to remove themselves from coercion, for example, from domestic violence. West Bengal: As a potential political tool to underpin a political community which reaffirms universal values. London: Represented as a core set of values ? in organisations’ work.
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