Human rights, civil rights

The untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands.

This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective.

The definitive biography of the playwright who become a president: Vaclav Havel, the final president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the new Czech RepublicVaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy.

Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean and why they matter, Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid foundation for comprehending what a human rights framework implies and the potential for social transformation it entails.

The Largest Amount of Good is the first full account of Quaker relief operations in Ireland and of the evolution of the Quakers' thinking on the purposes and limitations of philanthropy and the responsibility of the state in disaster.

Under a pretext of humanitarian response to people seeking asylum, nation states are increasingly introducing barriers to prevent entry for those seeking safety and security.

When white nationalists and their supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators in the college town of Charlottesville over the removal of a Confederate statue, resulting in the death of one anti-racist activist and the wounding of thirty-five more, a signal moment in American history was reached.

From the colonial period until modern times Christians have played a major role in the development of the United States of America.

Is the Internet erasing national borders?

On Liberty is the story of today's threats to our freedoms and a highly personal, impassioned plea in defence of fundamental rights, from Shami Chakrabarti, Britain's leading human rights campaignerOn 11 September 2001, our world changed.

Featuring contributions from Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal, and Owen Jones.

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change.

In a searing takedown of the populist authoritarian vision of America, The Terror of the Unforeseen tackles the resurgence of fascism in the age of Donald Trump's presidency.

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.

A powerful, urgent and timely polemic on why women still need equality, and how we get thereGender injustice is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet.

An impassioned argument by a young Mexican American woman for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)Abuses in detention centers.

The object of this book is an exercise in thought and an exploration of our consciousness.

When writing The Corporate Color Plan, McNeil had in mind to provide a resource to help various minorities and other similarly situated individuals understand how to navigate successfully through the snares and cares that are prevalent in white-collar corporate America, such individuals who have not known or had any affiliation with anyone in the corporate workplace and, consequently, would not know what to expect and how to handle what they would encounter in this type of working environment.

Mary Wollstonecraft’s visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women’s rights as an issue of universal human rights.

There is no more compelling and dramatic unfolding story, with more profound international ramifications, than the conflict in the Middle East.

Enslavement, trafficking, sexual starvation.

States claim the right to choose who can come to their country.

A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago.

In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L.

The World's Larger Search Engine-Tactics Revealed!

13-jährige Kinder, die Jahre in Isolationshaft verbringen müssen, willkürliche Verhaftungen und rassistische Vorurteile durch Polizei und Justiz oder Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen, die im Gefängnis jahrzehntelang vegetieren: Diese Geschichten sind Alltag in den USA.

It was a normal spring day in an elementary school library when a Decatur, Alabama, youngster watched the local artist sketching a portrait and then asked, "e;Who is John Kennedy?

Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre les missions et le rôle du Programme des Nations unies pour le Développement

2015 est une année carrefour pour le PNUD : il est en effet temps de dresser le bilan des résultats des Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement établis en 2000.

A Westerner's travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.

Leading the way to developmentThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the role and mission of the United Nations Development Programme, providing you with the essential information and saving time.

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been.

A book that calls us to witness our place in history Sally RooneyAn urgent and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women s Prize shortlisted author of Enter Ghost.

An incisive, lyrical, and deeply reported account of India's descent into authoritarianism.

Uno de los ejes fundamentales de la política es lo que se suele llamar la lucha política, la cual incluye la confrontación y la cooperación entre grupos y líderes.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Few books are as urgent as Shon Faye's debut .

In this important new collection of interviews with the acclaimed radio journalist David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky discuses U.

La dignidad de la persona humana, el libre desarrollo de la personalidad y el derecho a la identidad personal constituyen el núcleo de los derechos fundamentales, en la medida que la dignidad de la persona humana se encuentra estrechamente vinculada al libre desarrollo de la persona humana y al derecho a identidad personal.

El presente documento contiene los resultados del trabajo de investigacion realizado para analizar y precisar, en el marco de las disposiciones consagradas en la Politica de Gestion Integrada del Recursos Hidrico (pngirh) y del Decreto 1640 de 2012, compilado en los articulos 2.

Gaza in Crisis is Noam Chomsky's and Ilan Papp 's clear-sighted analysis of an area in a desperate impasse.

For fans of Hidden Figures and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'The kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!

Beyond Criminal Courts is a collection of resources created for organizers, advocates and community members working together to build the organizing-power we need to defund, divest, and ultimately to dismantle criminal courts for good.