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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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During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters-translating the "human terrain" of Iraq-members of this network urgently honed identification strategies amid suspicion from US forces, fellow Iraqis, and, not least of all, one another. In Interpreters of Occupation, Campbell traces the...
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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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Pledge of Allegiance is what it says. It's to enlighten the readers of the sacrifice that was made to make our country and people free. We as Americans must remember that freedom is not free; it cost something. And, that something is for all people of all races, creeds, and colors to be united as one. "How good and how pleasant it is for us (brethren) to dwell together in unity!"
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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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This book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. While others have shown how 'truth is the first casualty of war', this is the first to analyse exactly how pro-war narratives are constructed and normalised.
Brian Rappert details the 'upside-down' world of war in which revelation conceals, knowledge fosters uncertainty, and transparency obscures. He looks at government spin during recent wars in Iraq,...
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'Beautifully told, this book brings a fascinating and compelling story to a wider public. A "must read" for those interested in women's lives in the past.' June Purvis, Professor (Emerita) of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth, UK
'This important and absorbing book presents a unique history of Kitty Marshall. This is first-class history and a first-rate thriller.' Professor Clive Bloom, author of A History of Britain's Fight for...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Glenn Beck's Liars by Instaread Preview: In Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fear for Power and Control, Glenn Beck exposes the past and present onslaught led by the Left against the tenets of free society in the United States. For generations, progressives have been attempting to curb individual liberty in order to construct what they claim will be a more prosperous and peaceful society. Unfortunately, many of them...
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This book creates an enforceable international guarantee of basic human rights. It outlines the basics of a universally acceptable agreement. Shows what everyone can do to make this agreement a reality. In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a deeply inspiring document that has been translated into over 300 languages and dialects. But because its provisions are not enforceable, its promise has...
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Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of "justice" that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied.
Yet the United States-along...
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Why is there so much injustice in the society? Is equality possible? Why do we form groups? What is Power? Are we going to see more conflicts in the future or will the future herald a new era of peace? What does the past predict about the future? Does history repeat Itself? Will history repeat itself? Is there something we can do? Our Egalitarian Universe (OEU) is a series of reflections on these questions. It is an attempt to find solutions to social...
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Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and forced labor in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing system that strips people of their dignity for the sake of profit-and to link the suffering of the enslaved to the day-to-day lives of consumers in the West. In Modern Slavery, Kara draws on his many years of expertise to demonstrate the scope...
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With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China's Great Leap examines the People's Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. Today, China wants to engage with the outside world-while fully...
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Vivimos en sociedades donde el individuo constituye el centro de la mayoría de nuestras reflexiones y acciones, ya sean políticas, morales o de otro tipo. Esto es así, por lo menos, en las sociedades occidentales, aunque vemos cómo otras culturas, en las que lo colectivo tradicionalmente ha tenido un papel relevante, van experimentando cambios que tienden a orientarlas hacia ese paradigma individual. Decir que esto último sea positivo o negativo...
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El autor, que en el momento del golpe de estado (11 de septiembre de 1973) tenía sólo 17 años, describe con realismo el ambiente de su ciudad en tiempos de normalidad y en los días previos al golpe, sus vivencias ese fatídico día, y su vida clandestina hasta el momento de su detención y traslado al recinto militar Cerro Chena? lugar en el que coincidió con otros prisioneros, muchos de los cuales fueron posteriormente fusilados, y donde lo...
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La presente obra contempla el particular enfoque del autor respecto al origen y tratamiento de los derechos subjetivos y sus garantías, para luego diferenciarlos y compararlos con el sistema de derechos humanos. Se sugiere un cambio de paradigma, en cuanto al estudio y aplicación del derecho interno de cada país, así como su relación con los instrumentos internacionales respecto de las distintas materias a los que hacen alusión. También se...
100) World Report 2019
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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 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 rights...
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