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"Winner of the 2011 Lemkin Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide" Emma Gilligan is assistant professor of Russian history and human rights at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003.
A riveting history of Russia's crimes in Chechnya
Terror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides...
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This book 's radical theory of police argues that the police demand for order is a class order and a racialized and patriarchal order, by arguing that the police project, in order to fabricate and defend capitalist order, must patrol an imaginary line between society and nature, it must transform nature into inert matter made available for accumulation. Police don 't just patrol the ghetto or the Indian reservation, the thin blue line doesn 't just...
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Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka are the authors of Labor, Capital, and Finance. Razin is the Bernard L. Schwartz Chair for the Study of Global Competitive Markets at Tel Aviv University, the Friedman Professor of International Economics at Cornell University, and a research fellow at the NBER, CEPR, and CESifo. Sadka is the Henry Kaufman Professor of International Capital Markets at Tel Aviv University and a research fellow at CESifo and IZA.
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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 aid to Afghanistan was to promoting emancipation...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para entender en qué consiste el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Descubrir el contexto en el que nace el PNUD, el programa de las Naciones Unidas que busca el desarrollo y el bienestar humano, y entender la noción de «subdesarrollo» y su evolución a lo largo del tiempo
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Police intimidation, legal harassment, defamation and intimidation campaigns offline and increasingly online, pressure-economic or otherwise-from editors or media owners and sponsors, detentions, threats and physical violence: journalists are constantly exposed to these threats by those who feel threatened by their work.
The murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in October 2017 sent shock waves through Europe. Violence and acts...
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This book refutes the long held view of the Israeli left as adhering to a humanistic, democratic and even socialist tradition, attributed to the historic Zionist Labor movement. Through a critical analysis of the prevailing discourse of Zionist intellectuals and activists on the Jewish-democratic state, it uncovers the Zionist left's central role in laying the foundation of the colonial settler state of Israel, in articulating its hegemonic ideology...
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Elections are a pre-condition for democratic governance since it is through them that the citizens of a country choose freely, and on the basis of the law, the persons that can legitimately govern in their name and in their interest.
The right to free elections, as enshrined in the Article 3 of the Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, is a "fundamental principle in a truly democratic political regime". It comprises a series of safeguards...
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How could a country founded on the honorable ideals of freedom and equality have so willingly embraced the evils of enslavement and oppression? America's history of race relations is a difficult one, full of uncomfortable inconsistencies and unpleasant truths. Although the topic is sensitive, it is important to face this painful past unflinchingly-knowing this history is key to understanding today's racial climate and working towards a more harmonious...
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Set in Israel in the first decade of the twenty-first century and based on long-term fieldwork, this rich ethnographic study offers an innovative analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It explores practices of "memory activism" by three groups of Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Palestinian citizens-Zochrot, Autobiography of a City, and Baladna- showing how they appropriated the global model of truth and reconciliation, while utilizing local cultural...
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Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There are twenty-seven million slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. To Plead Our Own Cause contains...
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A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past -- and present. The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten? Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across...
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Learning how to deal with controversial issues is at the heart of education for democratic citizenship and human rights education. Highlighting best practices from case studies across Europe, this guide offers innovative approaches and practical tools to handle controversy in schools effectively.
Controversy and controversial issues are at the centre and at all levels of our democratic societies. This means that learning how to deal with such issues...
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Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy...
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Why have human rights become a defense for dictators and an ideological weapon for leftist political activists and advocates for global governance? The Debasement of Human Rights explains how profound contradictions in the idea of human rights around which international law and institutions and civil society campaigns are built have led to a process by which human rights has lost its meaning, and its moral power as an inspiration for those seeking...
516) A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de asilo: palabras para personas en movi
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A clear and concise A to Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis
As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin due to political, economic, and environmental peril, rising racism and xenophobia has led to increasingly harsh policies. A mass-mediated political circus obscures both histories of migration and longstanding definitions of words for people on the move, fomenting widespread linguistic confusion. Under this circus...
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In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural extension ... of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."
In his stirring conclusion...
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Une proposition de modèle de société guinéenne concret, innovant et réaliste pour sortir la Guinée de l'ombre et trouver le chemin de l'espérance.
C'est avec un fort réalisme que l'auteur propose à la Guinée un nouveau paradigme social ainsi qu'un mode innovant de gouvernance permettant d'affirmer que la mal gouvernance sera bientt un lointain souvenir. Un livre à mettre entre les mains de tout public, en Guinée, en Afrique et bien au-delà.
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Matt Zwolinski is professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego, where he is director of the Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy. His books include The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism. John Tomasi is president of Heterodox Academy in New York City. He is the author of Free Market Fairness (Princeton).
A sweeping history of libertarian thought, from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quo
Libertarianism...
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Portrait of a Deputy Public Defender (or how I became a punk rock lawyer) by Juanita E. Mantz, Esq. is a multi-genre chapbook containing memoir pieces, social justice essays, and poetry. It describes the author's love of punk rock and her quest to challenge the system of mass incarceration as a deputy public defender and the intersection between punk rock and public defense.
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