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Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and Americaus Response
by John Shattuck  Publisher Comments As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. Disasters were exploding simultaneously--genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia, murder and atrocities in Haiti, repression in China, brutal ethnic wars...
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New Killing Fields : Massacre and the Poitics of Intervention (02 Edition)
by Nicolaus Mills Publisher Comments The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning group of reporters and scholars, including, among others, David Rieff, Peter Maass...
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Humn Rights Search Commun PB
by Rhoda E Howard Publisher Comments Some critics contend that the concept of universal human rights reflects the West’s anticommunitarian, self-centered individualism, which disproportionately focuses on individual autonomy. In this book Rhoda Howard-Hassmann refutes this claim...
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Human Rights (Key Concepts)
by Michael Freeman Publisher Comments Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. It invites students to think conceptually about one of the most important and influential political concepts of our time. In this unique interdisciplinary approach, Michael...
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Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism
by David Cole Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-293) and index....
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Why Not Kill Them All? (06 Edition)
by Chirot Synopsis ""Why Not Kill Them All?" is an excellent book that adopts a fresh and complex approach to the problem of mass killings. In a study that ranges widely around the globe and through history, Chirot and McCauley demonstrate that genocides and other large...
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Evaluating International Humanitarian Action: Reflection from Practitioners
by Adrian Wood Publisher Comments With the number of violent conflicts within countries increasing all the time, as well as other forms of natural and man-made complex emergencies, humanitarian intervention has become a much more frequent form of development assistance. There has also...
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Enemy Combatant : My Imprisonment At Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar (06 Edition)
by Moazzam Begg Publisher Comments The "shocking firsthand account" (Chicago Sun-Times) of one man's years inside the notorious American prison—and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name. When Enemy Combatant was first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it...
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Sex Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2002
by Nicholas Bamforth Publisher Comments Discrimination due to gender and sexual orientation tends nowadays to be prohibited under international human rights instruments, as well as under the national laws of many countries that express their commitment to defending human rights. Nonetheless...
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Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients (06 Edition)
by Sonia Shah Publisher Comments An eye-opening look at Big Pharma's unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global south—the true story behind The Constant Gardener. Hailed by John le Carré as "an act of courage on the part of its author" and singled out for praise by...
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Rights from Wrongs: The Origins of Human Rights in the Experience of Injustice
by Alan Dershowitz Publisher Comments This is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are "natural"-if, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, it is "self-evident that all men are endowed...with certain...
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A Glimpse of Hell: Reports on Torture Worldwide
by Duncan Forrest Publisher Comments For over two decades, Amnesty International has been at the forefront of the international campaign against torture. For the first time, Amnesty International has commissioned the foremost experts in the field to write about the history of torture, the...
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The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo Bay
by Clive Smith Publisher Comments At a July 17, 2003 press conference held jointly with Prime Minister Tony Blair, President George W. Bush described the prisoners held in Guantanamo: "The only thing I know for certain is that these are bad people." They are, supposedly, the worst of the...
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Reith Lectures #2004: Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize--winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme in world politics. <BR>Decades ago, the idea of...
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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
by Peter Balakian Publisher Comments A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at...
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, Revised and Updated Edition
by Geoffrey Robertson Publisher Comments Weaves together disparate strands of history, philosophy, international law, and politics to show how an identification of the crime against humanity has become the key that unlocks the closed door of state sovereignty, enabling the international...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from (Public Square the Public Square)
by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Publisher Comments Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children's rights in America. It asks why the United States today, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the...
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years & Beyond
by Yael Danieli Book News Annotation Contributors from law, politics, medicine, and the social sciences and victims of human rights violations offer a kaleidoscopic view of the international convention that was established in the aftermath of World War II and almost everyone says is a...
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Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources (Social Issues Primary Sources: Human & Civil Rights)
by K Lee Lerner Publisher Comments This volume of primary source documents focuses on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic: Crime and Punishment, Environmental Issues, Family in Society, Gender Issues and...
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Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know
by Roy Gutman Synopsis For everyone who wants to become better informed about the news, this book lays out the benchmarks for monitoring the watchdogs and governments. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, it illustrates what is legal in...
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