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"Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the...
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""Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich...
3) The slaughter: mass killings, organ harvesting, and China's secret solution to its dissident problem
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The inside story of China's organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark conclusion of this comprehensive investigation into the Chinese state's secret program to get rid of political dissidents while profiting from the sale of their organs--in many cases to Western recipients. Based on...
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Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America's most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual...
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El autor, que en el momento del golpe de estado (11 de septiembre de 1973) tenía sólo 17 años, describe con realismo el ambiente de su ciudad en tiempos de normalidad y en los días previos al golpe, sus vivencias ese fatídico día, y su vida clandestina hasta el momento de su detención y traslado al recinto militar Cerro Chena? lugar en el que coincidió con otros prisioneros, muchos de los cuales fueron posteriormente fusilados, y donde lo...
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The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories is put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2015 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human...
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Vivimos en sociedades donde el individuo constituye el centro de la mayoría de nuestras reflexiones y acciones, ya sean políticas, morales o de otro tipo. Esto es así, por lo menos, en las sociedades occidentales, aunque vemos cómo otras culturas, en las que lo colectivo tradicionalmente ha tenido un papel relevante, van experimentando cambios que tienden a orientarlas hacia ese paradigma individual. Decir que esto último sea positivo o negativo...
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Una constatación evidente recorre hoy las experiencias políticas de países diversos: las herramientas democráticas y los instrumentos de derechos humanos—que han provocado avances innegables en la vida de millones de personas—resultan en gran medida insuficientes para evitar las formas extremas de marginación. En otras palabras, si bien los derechos humanos fueron fundamentales para visibilizar inequidades basadas en factores como el género...
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The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights...
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The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human...
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With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China's Great Leap examines the People's Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. Today, China wants to engage with the outside world-while fully...
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La presente obra contempla el particular enfoque del autor respecto al origen y tratamiento de los derechos subjetivos y sus garantías, para luego diferenciarlos y compararlos con el sistema de derechos humanos. Se sugiere un cambio de paradigma, en cuanto al estudio y aplicación del derecho interno de cada país, así como su relación con los instrumentos internacionales respecto de las distintas materias a los que hacen alusión. También se...
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CUSTOMERS IN NORTH AMERICA: COPIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WWW.SEVENSTORIES.COM Human Rights Watch's twenty-third annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. An invaluable and respected resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, the book includes essays that tackle major human rights themes, and country chapters addressing key human rights abuses and the roles –positive or negative...
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Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record remains a key indicator of its governmental legitimacy. Bureaucratic Intimacies shows how government workers encounter human rights rhetoric through...
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This autobiographical book draws on the wisdom and learnings of a lifetime of personal growth. The themes that run through the book are layers of personal stories drawn from a colorful family history, from many years as a veterinary surgeon, as facilitator in the adventure industry and as a trekking guide working with the Nepalese Gurkha soldiers. Beneath this are the psychological insights and wisdoms from an array of sources that relate to inner...
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The purpose of this book is to bring focus on America's current justice system. It is all too common that Americans cry out for justice. However, many don't understand how Black and Brown people are underserved by this system. Through life experiences-living, observing, and working within the system-I have determined that the current criminal justice system is flawed in providing equal justice to Black and Brown people.
I hope that after Americans...
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Human rights and Probation Supervision intents to give a clear picture on the different facets of the Probation system. It compiles and chapterizes the work ranging from the origin of Probation to the recent techniques of probation. Probation if widely and intelligently used it can be a solace to thousands languishing in Prisons. So, probation can protect their Human Rights. Probation reforms the offender and protects the society. It can be, used...
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What if modern bureaucrats led our country toward a genocidal end which rivaled history's most wicked regimes? What if Christians helped them do it? And what does any of this have to do with autism?
This book demonstrates how U.S. policy and social evolution has followed a trajectory eerily like the one which seated the Nazis, and how Germany's most-notorious human rights abuses began with violating the human rights of children with disabilities...
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In a democratic polity, protection and promotion of Human Rights is of utmost importance. Though Human Rights are universally acknowledged rights and with the internationalization of these rights, several international mechanisms are available for their implementation. However, the ultimate responsibility for the effective implementation of these rights lies with the state. Therefore, the National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) play a significant...
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