El Comando Conjunto fue un organismo represivo de la dictadura chilena del que nada se sabía hasta que uno de sus agentes –Andrés Valenzuela Morales, alias Papudo– desertó y, arriesgando la vida, entregó su testimonio.
Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider's view of artmaking in Guantanamo, the world's most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human.
Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and its relationship with secularism in Bangladesh from pre-British to contemporary times.
Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society PrizeAn estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out.
'Outstanding' JOHN PRESTON | 'Extraordinary' THE TIMES | 'A master-storyteller' ANDREW ROBERTS | 'Vivid and compelling' IRISH TIMES | 'Psychologically shrewd' IRISH INDEPENDENT | 'A page-turning finale' HISTORY TODAY | 'Superb' TELEGRAPH *5 STARS*Celebrated reformer and proud nationalist, romantic radical and vilified traitor: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century s most complex and compelling individuals.
Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and its relationship with secularism in Bangladesh from pre-British to contemporary times.
Los mecanismos de justicia transicional y la sociedad necesitan tener acceso a los archivos de inteligencia y contrainteligencia utilizados en el marco del conflicto armado.
An indispensable resource for understanding religion's place in American schools and in matters concerning the separation of church and state in the United States.
Este libro busca contribuir al difícil debate sobre cómo compatibilizar los imperativos de la justicia y los derechos de las víctimas con las dinámicas propias de una negociación de paz.
Esta cartilla ofrece una reflexión teórica en torno a la implementación del trabajo regional en ciencias sociales y humanas, bajo lo que Dejusticia ha denominado investigación anfibia – investigación-acción –.
Collecting authoritative contributions, Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance combines the life experience of victims with the expertise of scholars and practitioners of human rights, psychoanalysis, and artists to compose a picture that renders the complexity of this crime in its legal, psychological, and social aspects.
A pesar de la larga trayectoria en la protección y promoción de los derechos humanos de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) venezolanas, y de su importante rol en la superación de la crisis que atraviesa el país, su voz no es ampliamente difundida y la mirada de la comunidad internacional se ha centrado principalmente en atender las consecuencias de la crisis.
This book presents various forms of human trafficking, a growing trend in the exploitation of large numbers of people with concurrent public health, socio-cultural, and economic costs to countries burdened with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To consider the problems of high litigation costs and delay that burden both plaintiffs and defendants, average citizens and large corporations, Senator Joseph R.
** #4 New York Times bestseller **In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals.
This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1945.
En este trabajo colectivo se analiza la necesidad y el alcance de un principio de neutralidad en el constitucionalismo, es decir, los ámbitos en los que se impide adoptar decisiones o realizar actividad que favorezca determinadas y concretas posiciones ideológicas u opciones políticas, es decir, actividad de tendencia en ámbitos regidos por la idea de interés general o público.
This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries.
La alianza entre grupos religiosos y grupos conservadores se ha valido de la instrumentalización del concepto de laicidad y ha puesto en cuestión su utilidad en América Latina.
This book presents various forms of human trafficking, a growing trend in the exploitation of large numbers of people with concurrent public health, socio-cultural, and economic costs to countries burdened with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
En este trabajo se han analizado las razones que abundan a que el Estado debe ser neutral políticamente y que son numerosas, ya que se estructura una sociedad política pluralista, cuyo reconocimiento como principio y valor constitucional tiene como consecuencia la garantía de la igualdad en el ejercicio de los derechos de libertad, incluidos los de carácter político, que deben posibilitar que no se perjudique la competencia política, proteger los derechos de los participantes en la misma, garantizar la libertad en el proceso de formación de la voluntad política y de la opinión pública, asegurar la protección de los intereses generales e impedir la utilización de los recursos públicos por la autoridad pública para fines partidistas.
An indispensable resource for understanding religion's place in American schools and in matters concerning the separation of church and state in the United States.
ARABS & ISRAEL FOR BEGINNERS covers the Middle East from ancient times to the present, tells the truth in plain English, and is one of the few non-scholarly books that is relentlessly fair to both Jews and Arabs.
Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider's view of artmaking in Guantanamo, the world's most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human.
This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi'a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East.
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West Bank' The Best Books to Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Financial Times'Brims over with just the sort of compassion and understanding that is needed at a time like this a book that speaks with deep and authentic truth of ordinary lives trapped in the jaws of history' ObserverA gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collisionMilad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits: his bus is involved in a horrific accident.
