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Truth Commissions: State Terror, History, and Memory
by Greg Grandin  Synopsis This special issue of Radical History Review looks at the different kinds of history produced by truth commissions organized to investigate political violence, state terror, and human rights violations around the globe and examines how these histories...
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Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights
by Aryeh Neier Publisher Comments Since joining the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1963 and becoming its youngest executive director, Aryeh Neier has been at the forefront of efforts to fight for civil liberties, human rights, and social justice. Whether he was...
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The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (International Humanitarian Affairs)
by Kevin M Cahill Publisher Comments Understanding the complex nature of international humanitarian action—particularly following natural disasters or armed conflicts—has been the mission of this unique series. This book explores the cutting-edge concerns that will affect how...
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Birth of Freedom (06 Edition)
by Lewis Publisher Comments Drawn from ancient times through the twentieth century, this inspriring collection of 300 of the most important documents and speeches of American History and Western civilization chronicles the birth of freedom. Written by ancient thinkers and...
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The Globalization of Human Rights
by Jean Marc Coicaud Publisher Comments This book addresses a set of questions focusing on the imperatives of justice at the national, regional and international levels. The examination of these imperatives is conducted through an analysis of civil, political, economic, and social rights...
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Denial and Distress
by Marwan Bisharah Publisher Comments In Denial and Distress the authors analyze the gender-differentiated impact of globalization on women and men in the various parts of Asia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. They provide evidence that not only is the incidence of poverty...
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Negotiating Culture and Human Rights: Beyond Univeralism and Relativism
by Lynda Schaefer Bell Publisher Comments "Negotiating Culture and Human Rights" provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate, " so named because of the culturally relativist ideals...
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Crimes of War: What Public Should Know (Rev 08 Edition)
by Roy Gutman Publisher Comments "A reference that has no counterpart…. Civilization is in debt to all [the contributors]."—International Herald Tribune Originally published in 1999, this A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities has received worldwide acclaim and has been...
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Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide
by Adam Lebor Publisher Comments From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This is evinced, author and journalist Adam LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi,...
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The Rights of Refugees Under International Law
by James C Hathaway Publisher Comments The first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees under international law....
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Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International
by Jonathan Power Publisher Comments Published in Amnesty International's 40th anniversary year, this objective history tells how the controversial yet highly influential organization put human rights on the international agenda....
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The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
by Micheline R Ishay Publisher Comments Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book that brilliantly synthesizes historical and intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today's era of globalization. As she chronicles...
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Aiding Recovery?: The Crisis of Aid in Chronic Political Emergencies
by Joanna Macrae Publisher Comments In this important study of aid policy, Joanna Macrae argues that the disintegration of state authority and civil order has created acute problems in precisely those countries that need aid most. In a number of developing countries--including Cambodia...
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Torture Debate in America (06 Edition)
by Karen J. (ed.) Greenberg Publisher Comments This book provides essays on the debate over the US government’s use of torture....
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In Our Own Best Interest : How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All (01 Edition)
by William F. Schulz Publisher Comments 'From the director of Amnesty International, a provocative new argument for defending human rights The Philippines, Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia, east Los Angeles. The nightly news brings vivid images of the mistreatment of people all over the world into our...
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Foreign Territory: The Internationalisation of EU Asylum Policy
by David Mckeever Publisher Comments European Union asylum policy is shifting overseas. The politicization of asylum-related issues and the desire to manage migration are the forces behind a wave of new internationalized initiatives which could have a serious impact on the lives of refugees....
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You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression
by Matthew Rothschild Publisher Comments Chilling true stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11. "I'm very liberal and sometimes my friends say I'm giving them some kind of paranoid, nutty stuff, and I agree, but then the FBI show up."—...
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Privacy & Human Rights 2001
by EPIC and Privacy International Publisher Comments This annual report by EPIC and Privacy International reviews the state of privacy in over fifty countries around the world. It outlines legal protections for privacy, new challenges, and summarizes important issues and events relating to privacy and...
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On Human Rights: 1993 (Oxford Amnesty Lectures)
by Stephen Shute Publisher Comments Are there any human rights that apply to all women and all men in all cultures at all times? Can we ground human rights in an abstract rationality possessed by every human being? Or, as some philosophers have claimed, are attempts to ground human rights...
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The Story of Cruel and Unusual (Boston Review Books)
by Colin Dayan Publisher Comments A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment....
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