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Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof;Sheryl WuDunn
mobi |eng | 2009-08-22 | Author:Nicholas D. Kristof;Sheryl WuDunn

Studies on the impact of abstinence-only programs aren’t conclusive and seem to depend to some extent on the ideology of those conducting the study. But on balance, the evidence suggests ...
( Category: Political Advocacy January 17,2015 )
Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change by Brian Tokar
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Brian Tokar [Tokar, Brian]

Trading Pollution The notion that new commodity markets can become a tool for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases is perhaps the most brazen expression of capitalist ideology in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 8,2014 )
Survivors of Slavery by Laura Murphy
epub |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Laura Murphy

Azad Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, November 2, 2004 CALLAHAN: Ramphal, now I see you in your new village. And your life has changed a whole lot. Tell us about your life ...
( Category: Human Rights December 2,2014 )
Little Princes by Conor Grennan
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Conor Grennan

Part IV INTO THE MOUNTAINS November 2006-December 2006 Five Farid and I both lived in Kathmandu now. I had my apartment, and Farid had taken a small room—a former pantry, ...
( Category: Child Abuse November 11,2014 )
The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali [Ali, Ayaan Hirsi]

6. Thou shalt not kill. There are a few religious fanatics around who will want to kill me because I have become an atheist, and because—by killing me—they will secure ...
( Category: Political Advocacy November 11,2014 )
A Path Appears by Nicholas D. Kristof Sheryl WuDunn
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn [Kristof, Nicholas D.]

Mullaney intrigued us because he seemed so successful at the art of emotionally connecting Americans to distant suffering—a challenge that frustrated and eluded us. During the genocide in Darfur, Nick ...
( Category: Social Work October 27,2014 )
No Place to Call Home by Katharine Quarmby
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-22 | Author:Katharine Quarmby [Quarmby, Katharine]

Strikingly, over half of all Irish Travellers in prison were there for property offences, compared to thirty per cent of prisoners from the general population. ‘All forms of theft tend ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism October 16,2014 )
Crimes Against Humanity by Adam Jones
mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Adam Jones

In terms of absolute numbers of prisoners, the Gulag system peaked in the post-World War II era. As part of the ‘destalinization’ process following the dictator’s death, it was rapidly ...
( Category: African September 29,2014 )
The New York Review Abroad by Robert B. Silvers
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Robert B. Silvers [Silvers, Robert B.]

Indeed, the question is not why there is any cultural activity in Sarajevo now after seventeen months of siege, but why there isn’t more. Outside a boarded-up movie theater next ...
( Category: Human Rights September 22,2014 )
Conrad Black by A Matter of Principle
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:A Matter of Principle

[CHAPTER TEN] THE FACT THAT DAVID RADLER’S counsel had withdrawn from the joint defence group indicated that Anton Valukas, his lawyer, thought he could really do something with Radler in ...
( Category: Canadian August 28,2014 )
The Slaughter by Ethan Gutmann
epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Ethan Gutmann

Wang Yuzhi was outside the yard, facing the door to her mother's house. In past dreams she had tried to go to that door many times. There had been a ...
( Category: Human Rights August 14,2014 )
Historical Dictionary of Human Rights by Jacques Fomerand
epub |eng | | Author:Jacques Fomerand

J JAPAN. See “COMFORT WOMEN”; DENIAL; FEMALE INFANTICIDE; FORCED LABOR; INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST; SEX TRAFFICKING; WORLD WAR I PEACE TREATIES. JAPANESE DETENTION CAMPS. See KOREMATSU, FRED ...
( Category: Reference July 19,2014 )
Beyond Human Rights by Alain de Benoist
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Alain de Benoist [Benoist, Alain de]

To posit that what comes first is not the individual but the group does not at all signify that the individual is ‘enclosed’ in the group, but rather that he ...
( Category: Humanism July 19,2014 )
The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza by Weizman Eyal
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Weizman, Eyal [Weizman, Eyal]

Marc Garlasco speaking at Bard College’s Human Rights Project (HRP) about violations of the laws of war in the Gaza offensive of 2008–9. Photograph courtesy of HRP, 2010. 4 Forensic ...
( Category: History & Theory July 8,2014 )
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Rebecca Solnit

III Eliminate your mother, then your two grandmothers, then your four great-grandmothers. Go back more generations and hundreds, then thousands disappear. Mothers vanish, and the fathers and mothers of those ...
( Category: History & Theory June 23,2014 )

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