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Moving Mountains: Communities Confront Mining and Globalization
by Geoff Evans  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-265) and index....
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Economic Rights in Canada and the United States (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Rhod Howard Hassman Publisher Comments This volume explains how economic rights are realized--or violated--in Canada and the United States. Contributors analyze the philosophy, law, and politics of these rights and discuss specific issues such as poverty, health care, and the rights of people...
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The Circle of Empowerment: Twenty-Five Years of the Un Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
by Ha Schopp Schilling Publisher Comments The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is one of the most important human rights tools ever created. Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly, it is often described as an international bill of...
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At THH Point of a Gun (05 Edition)
by Rieff Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of "A Bed for the Night," named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the "Los Angeles Times," comes a provocative argument against armed humanitarian or human rights intervention....
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Globalization and Human Rights (02 Edition)
by Alison (ed.) Brysk Publisher Comments How is "the global economy" effecting human rights and creating or alleviating human rights abuses in other countries? A look at the relation of globalization and international human rights, addressing a number of previously unexamined questions....
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Death Penalty on Trial: Crisis in American Justice
by Bill Kurtis Publisher Comments Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that...
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The Bitter Fruit of American Justice: International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty
by Alan W Clarke Publisher Comments The Bitter Fruit of American Justice examines two increasingly important factors in the debate over state execution, the conjunction of which may well signal an end to the death penalty in the United States. The first is external to the country. Mounting...
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The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices
by Elazar Barkan Publisher Comments How do nations and aggrieved parties, in the wake of heinous crimes and horrible injustices, make amends in a way that acknowledges wrongdoing and redefines future interactions? How does the growing practice of negotiating restitution restore a sense of...
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Human Rights Watch World Report 2007 (Human Rights Watch World Report)
by Human Rights Watch Publisher Comments "A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to domi-nate."-Simon Jenkins, former editor of The Times of London, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week <BR>"The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW...
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Human Rights in the Global Information Society (Information Revolution & Global Politics)
by Rikke Fra Jorgensen Publisher Comments International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy issue. The first United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in December 2003...
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Guantanamo: What the World Should Know (Politics of the Living)
by Michael Ratner 
Publisher Comments In the months following its initial release, Guantánamo: What the World Should Know has proved to be a disturbingly accurate account of the Bush administration's tangle with civil liberties and torture. Written by Michael Ratner (Center for...
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Human Rights Watch World Report: Events of 2007 (Human Rights Watch World Report)
by Human Rights Watch Publisher Comments "A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to dominate."-Simon Jenkins, former editor of The Times(London) "The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and...
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We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant America After 9/11
by Tram Nguyen Publisher Comments Known as Little Pakistan, the community of Midwood, Brooklyn, has suffered a remarkable exodus in the years since 9/11. One sixth of the community--20,000 people--has left in search of liberty. In an ironic reversal of the American dream, this immigrant...
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New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights Ngos (Advancing Human Rights)
by Paul J Nelson Publisher Comments After World War II dozens of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. Some focused on protecting human rights; some were dedicated to development, aimed at...
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The Mercy Factory
by Christopher Einolf Publisher Comments America is a country of immigrants with a proud tradition of welcoming refugees from persecution. In today's world, it remains a cherished destination for thousands seeking a new life. Yet studies and surveys show that most Americans object to high...
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Are Women Human? (06 Edition)
by Catharine A. Mackinnon Publisher Comments More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide...
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A Handbook of Hanging
by Charles Duff Publisher Comments "A Handbook on Hanging" is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of...
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California Series in Public Anthropology #04: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index....
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Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America
by Kristian Williams Publisher Comments "Should become mandatory reading for all police academy students."-Damon Woodcock (Ret.), Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau "A well-researched, historically grounded, and mordant critique of American policing past and present."-Christian Parenti Even...
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Sweet Relief: The Marla Ruzicka Story
by Jennifer Abrahamson Publisher Comments Marla Ruzicka was a free spirit, a savvy political operator, a wartime Erin Brockovich. Fiercely determined to improve the lives of the less fortunate, the twenty-something blonde was instrumental in convincing the U.S. government to pass historic...
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