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  • Flight and Freedom

    Stories of Escape to Canada

    The global number of people currently displaced from their home country—more than 50 million—is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a safe haven for refugees or a closed door?In Flight and Freedom, Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner present a collection of thirty astonishing interviews with refugees, ... Leer más

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  • The Lady and the Peacock

    The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi

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    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi—known to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply "The Lady"—has recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography offers essential reading at a moment when Burma, after decades of stagnation, is once again in flux.Suu Kyi's remarkable life begins with that of ... Leer más

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  • The Endtimes of Human Rights

    "We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on ... Leer más

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  • Freedom's Battle

    The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

    de Gary J. Bass ...
    This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action by exposing them to distant atrocities. Wildly ... Leer más

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  • The Eye of the Storm

    The View from the Centre of a Political Scandal

    de Rob Wilson ...
    MPs' expenses in 2009. Phone hacking in 2011. 'Plebgate' in 2012. If a good speech or a ground-breaking new policy fails to get people talking, you can be sure a juicy scandal will do the trick. Our instantaneous news culture of social networks, blogs and Twitter feeds means politicians now, more than ever, can find themselves the focus of every journalist in the country in what seems like the ... Leer más

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  • The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Societies

    Over the past decade, a global convergence in migration policies has emerged, and with it a new, mean-spirited politics of immigration. It is now evident that the idea of a settler society, previously an important landmark in understanding migration, is a thing of the past. What are the consequences of this shift for how we imagine immigration? And for how we regulate it? This book analyzes the ... Leer más

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  • Political Economy of Human Rights

    Rights, Realities and Realization

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The plethora of literature produced over the past decade in response to the perceived failure of the human rights project to deliver results for billions of people living in ‘adverse’ environments has usually focused on international legal standards and mechanisms, with little regard for the root structural realities that constrain their implementation. Hence, a text that primarily focuses on the ... Leer más

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  • Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations

    Edición de Mark Gibney, Sigrun Skogly ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Globalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relations. This transformation has had a significant impact on the practice of trade law, financial regulation, and environmental law but relatively little effect on one area of law and regulation: human rights.Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial ... Leer más

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  • Why Was the Soviet Union Fighting in Afghanistan Before the USA?

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    After the Russian Revolution of November 6-7, 1917—the Equal Employment Opportunity Decree was issued and the Russian women and all minorities (Russia had 70-100 million minorities) became equal.This historic event had impact on Afghanistan. In the 1920s veils and polygamy were abolished and the education of Afghan’s girls was installed.Then again in 1950s the Soviet Union through huge amount of ... Leer más

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  • Advanced Introduction to International Human Rights Law

    de Shelton, D.L. ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. In this landmark text, Dinah L. Shelton offers an insightful overview of the current state of international human rights law: its norms, institutions and procedures, both global and regional. Designed to be accessible, yet ... Leer más

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  • After Abu Ghraib

    Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration's 'War on Terror' torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional West to East flow of human rights mobilizations and discourses) and Middle Eastern attempts to ... Leer más

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  • Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust

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