How does that localization happen?
The process Peggy and I have been looking at is the work of NGOs that have missions to work on women’s human rights. We looked at how some of these organizations take the concept of women’s rights that are grounded in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, or CEDAW, and use it to help solve the problems that their clients have every day. Of course, it turns out that these NGOs don’t use exactly the same words or the same framework as the human rights convention. In fact, they often don’t refer to the human rights convention at all. They’re working in communities that are already rich with other ideas of social justice and reform. So they basically add on the human rights ideas to create a new configuration—a mix of these new ideas and other ideas that are already in place, which may themselves be transnational. Can you give an example? Let’s take an organization we looked at in India. The organization and local communities already had Gandhian i
