Interesting Quote

"...activists who ignore the latest international fashion risk being outstripped by their more norm-savvy counterparts. Since international attention can make or break an organization, the ability to skillfully deploy rights language may be crucial to a group’s continued survival. the global diffusion of human rights, in other words, is produced both by Southern demands for justice and by northern supplies of funds, attention, and legitimacy." 

- Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and James Ron, "Seeing Double:  Human Rights Impact through Qualitative and Quantitative Eyes"