""One of the best and most interesting treatments of the human rights movement, and of the dynamics of the United Nations human rights system, written to date.""--Human Rights Quarterly Drawing on confidential Argentinian documents and memoranda,
""One of the best and most interesting treatments of the human rights movement, and of the dynamics of the United Nations human rights system, written...
Issues of universal human rights are critically important topics in education today. Educators, scholars, and activists urge schools to promote awareness and understanding of human rights in their curricula from the earliest levels.
Written by by Betty A. Reardon, one of the foremost scholars on human rights education for the primary and secondary levels, Educating for Human Dignity is designed for both teachers and teacher educators. It is the first resource offering both guidance and support materials for human rights education programs from kindergarten through high...
Issues of universal human rights are critically important topics in education today. Educators, scholars, and activists urge schools to promote awa...
Human Rights of Women National and International Perspectives Edited by Rebecca J. Cook "The multiple perspectives offered by this collection of eminently readable and interesting papers make it a valuable resource for upper-division classes in women's studies, international relations, and international law."--Choice "The book's embrace is gigantic. . . . Not only will Human Rights of Women appeal to a wide audience, it should be read by everyone who has any interest in human rights."--Gender and Development "A brave, honest, and invigorating text."--Journal of Law and...
Human Rights of Women National and International Perspectives Edited by Rebecca J. Cook "The multiple perspectives offered by this collection of emine...
"This book . . . offers comprehensive conceptual and practical observations and recommendations that will serve the international human rights community for many years to come."--Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights "The significance of this book cannot be overstated. . . . It is written for a global audience of educators at all levels, scholars in all disciplines, policy makers, and foundation officers."--Human Rights QuarterlyHuman Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century is a comprehensive resource for training, education, and raising awareness in a wide variety...
"This book . . . offers comprehensive conceptual and practical observations and recommendations that will serve the international human rights communi...
The term genocide has been used to describe a wide range of events and polities, from the "final solution of the Jewish question" in Nazi Germany to Western efforts to establish birth control and abortion programs in Third World nations. It is these dimensions of genocide that the authors to this volume explore, in the context both of their historical roots and of the implications for current and future international action.
The term genocide has been used to describe a wide range of events and polities, from the "final solution of the Jewish question" in Nazi Germany t...
China, the United Nations, and Human Rights The Limits of Compliance Ann Kent "An ambitious and impressive undertaking that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of how international regimes function and how China interacts with the international order."--R. Randle Edwards, Columbia University "Impressive. . . . Rarely does one encounter such fine, readable scholarship on such a timely, complex issue."--Choice "Kent combines primary and secondary research into a detailed case study that tells us important things about both China's relations with the external world and...
China, the United Nations, and Human Rights The Limits of Compliance Ann Kent "An ambitious and impressive undertaking that makes a significant contri...
In 1999, the Guatemala truth commission issued its report on human rights violations during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war that ended in 1996. The commission, sponsored by the UN, estimates the conflict resulted in 200,000 deaths and disappearances. The commission holds the Guatemalan military responsible for 93 percent of the deaths.
In "The Guatemalan Military Project," Jennifer Schirmer documents the military's role in human rights violations through a series of extensive interviews striking in their brutal frankness and unique in their first-hand descriptions of the campaign...
In 1999, the Guatemala truth commission issued its report on human rights violations during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war that ended in 199...
"Revealing and useful." --Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books "Definitive. Essential reading for everyone interested in human rights." --David P. Forsythe, Choice "Morsink merges history and philosophy in a way that simultaneously roots the Universal Declaration in a particular time and place and reveals its enduring contemporary significance and value." --Jack Donnelly, Human Rights Quarterly "No other books takes the reader behind the scenes into the drafting details. . . . Morsink's] seminal account merits reading by all invested in the Declaration--activist,...
"Revealing and useful." --Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books "Definitive. Essential reading for everyone interested in human rights." ...
Labor rights have traditionally been a concern of labor law scholars and practitioners whose work concentrates exclusively on domestic developments. In the past decade, however, the globalization of investment and production has expanded the bounds of labor rights discourse.
Contributors to this volume provide the first comprehensive view of labor rights in the international system of commerce. They consider the avenues open to worker rights claims in the global economy under international human rights instruments, U.S. trade laws, free trade agreements, labor rights litigation, and...
Labor rights have traditionally been a concern of labor law scholars and practitioners whose work concentrates exclusively on domestic developments...
Since independence in 1956, large numbers of Moroccans have been forcibly disappeared, tortured, and imprisoned. Morocco's uncovering and acknowledging of these past human rights abuses are complicated and revealing processes. A community of human rights activists, many of them survivors of human rights violations, are attempting to reconstruct the past and explain what truly happened.
What are the difficulties in presenting any event whose central content is individual pain when any corroborating police or governmental documentation is denied or absent? Susan Slyomovics argues that...
Since independence in 1956, large numbers of Moroccans have been forcibly disappeared, tortured, and imprisoned. Morocco's uncovering and acknowled...
