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Certain fundamental rights-such as the rights to safety, freedom of movement, and freedom of expression-are human rights to which everyone is entitled. In this book, explore current conflicts involving human rights around the world. Then, decide where YOU stand on this important issue. The Shaping the Debate series is designed to help readers in grades 5-9 understand social issues from multiple viewpoints and to articulate their own opinions. Each...
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"Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz--a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile--for her advice. These three very...
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Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture-and could that line be moved? The White House lawyers' answer-in the form of legal documents later known as the "Torture Memos"-became the US's justification for engaging in torture.
The Torturer in the Mirror shows...
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Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers fresh solutions reflecting sustainability, community, and equity-the only principles that can assure a healthy future for the world's people.
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Este libro reúne aportes teóricos sobre derechos sociales en la movilidad humana en la migración internacional, con estudios de caso en Argentina y Chile, desde una perspectiva pluridisciplinaria.
Esta publicación no solo ofrece un riguroso análisis legal del grado de protección y garantía de los derechos sociales para las personas migrantes y refugiadas, sino que invita a una mirada crítica sobre la construcción de estándares diferenciados...
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This study is an attempt at explaining the social structure of India with reference to untouchability.The work objectively aims at the enlightenment of the readers regarding the spirit of laws and their use and misuse and their politicization. It also, attempts, modestly, to show, how to stop the malpractice of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955. It must serve as a guide to the whole society with regard to social, political and economic harmony....
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The Prisoners' Diaries provides a deeply moving series of first - person commentaries on what Palestinian prisoners have been enduring for decades in the dark recesses of Israel's unlawful and inhumane network of prisons. Edited and published during the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, this collection serves to inform us that for Palestinians, imprisonment has become a fact of life, rather than a blatant violation of human rights.
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We the people. Will not be silenced. Our voices are important.
We the people Will not be pushed aside.
We will be seen.
Our numbers are more than you know.
We the people Will make a difference. We will hold the government accountable. Our empathy is not a weakness.
In these turbulent times we the people will stand together in the face of hate knowing we are all equal, and every life matters.
We the people are. The Resistance, United in Love....
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Esta obra, producida por un selecto grupo de profesores investigadores vinculados a la División de Derecho, Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad del Norte (Colombia), está dirigida a todas aquellas personas comprometidas con la investigación, la reflexión y la reivindicación de los Derechos Humanos a nivel nacional y mundial. Este esfuerzo intelectual permite ahondar en le tema de los derechos humanos y la naturaleza...
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The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human...
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Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough is an accomplished author, metaphysician, specialty plastic surgeon, and godly American patriot.
In this, his twenty-third book, the doctor addresses how a deep state network that is aligned with Luciferian globalists, has infiltrated government, America's healthcare system, the mainstream media, public education, and the entertainment industry.
With the souls of the America's children hanging in the balance, Dr. McCollough...
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There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a species whose aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order. This is the core of anti-humanism. Merchants of Despair traces the pedigree of...
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This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to rights in his philosophical writings, political statements,...
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Este libro es producto de un recorrido a los espacios de las Naciones Unidas donde se elaboró la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos: el Comité de Borrador, la Comisión de Derechos Humanos, el Consejo Económico y Social, la Asamblea General. Además, fue dirigido por la necesidad de conocer lo que los delegados expusieron, debatieron y acordaron para dar vida a un documento que se convirtió en ícono y referente político y jurídico....
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¿Qué significa impartir justicia en tiempos de transición? ¿Qué tipo de reparación se les puede ofrecer a las víctimas de violaciones a los derechos humanos y a sus familiares? ¿Cómo se recupera una sociedad fragmentada y se conjugan visiones de la historia en disputa? ¿Cómo se generan diálogos y pasos hacia la convivencia democrática en contextos de conflictos sociales, con frecuencia violentos? En definitiva, ¿qué papel debe cumplir...
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Pressed but not Crushed is an anthology of political poems that address current and historical issues in the American Descendants of Slave (ADOS) population. Issues such as ADOS abduction, white supremacists practices, lynching and murdering of "native blacks" in America are addressed in this book. There is a Say Their Names sections, which honors and memorializes some of the victims of murder by law enforcement and white supremacists. It would take...
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Looking for a new way forward, or a different explanation of what is currently happening? Susan Hawthorne challenges the universal endorsement of global western culture with her concept of biodiversity, arguing that biodiversity is a useful metaphor for understanding social, political, and economic relations in the globalised world of the twenty-first century. She provides a visionary outlook and proposes ways forward that emphasise social justice,...
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A twelve-year-old schoolchild was arrested at his school and questioned by an antiterrorist police squad, because he was organizing a picket of the offices of his member of parliament, who happened to be the current prime minister of Great Britain. He was protesting against the closure of a youth club. Starting with this absurd example of overzealous antiterrorist legislation, Kerr, who has a nose for both the absurd and the shocking, develops his...
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In the aftermath of 2011's Arab Spring uprisings, unexpected new challenges and imperatives of building rights-respecting democracies appeared in their wake. Human Rights Watch's 23rd annual World Report explores these new challenges and summarizes human rights conditions and practices in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work by Human Rights Watch staff.
Human Rights Watch's World Report 2013 is...
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