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Table 61: A Taxonomy of the Deployment of Human Rights and Agency Locus of Agency Activists’ Perception of Contexts Represented NGO Activity Representation of the Function of Human Rights Framework 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 framework depicted in activists’ accounts. Component One Local infrastructure too deprived to enable human rights to gain purchase. Social Welfare Provision or Charitable Activities. West Bengal: A recourse to rhetoric to legitimise the claims made by those in the most marginalised communities. London: A recourse to rhetoric to expose how the failure of UK economic system fails some of the most marginalised in society. Component Two Socio-economic contexts provide barriers to the implementation of human rights. The Deployment of Human Rights to Support NGO “Power To” Empowerment Strategies. West Bengal: Provides a language with which to express and construct vision and mission statements with the objective of establishing co-operative projects. Activists perceive they are too powerless to overcome existing power structures. The objective of programmes is to become independent of existing power structures. London: As an ethos which underpins the operation and objectives of community projects. Human rights acts as a vehicle to overcome prejudice or social disadvantage
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