Overview :Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly,... Read More
Overview :A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build--and they'll start by canceling our shared history, id... Read More
Overview :From the award-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline expos of brutal rep... Read More
Overview :In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world's most serious, pervasive, and ignored viol... Read More
Overview :The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the... Read More
Overview :In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Do... Read More
Overview :Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing ... Read More
Overview :How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From... Read More
Overview :"I have been to Palestine where I've witnessed the racially segregated housing and the humiliation of Palestinians at military roadblocks. I... Read More
Overview :Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation. Everything about her life?family, sexuality, hygiene, business, banking, c... Read More
Overview :"Many . . . unwritten rights are somehow inherent in the American scheme of democracy. So where do these freedoms come from? . . . One of th... Read More
Overview :The idea of human rights began as a call for individual freedom from tyranny, yet today it is exploited to rationalize oppression and promot... Read More
Overview :2048 is the story of the most important international social movement in the 21st century: the drafting and implementation of an Internation... Read More
Overview :Advocates within the human rights movement have had remarkable success establishing new international laws, securing concrete changes in hum... Read More
Overview :In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of ... Read More
Overview :A suspenseful and thrilling account by a hostage negotiator searching for a missing person in Syria over eighteen tense days. Daniel Levin ... Read More
Overview :Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet recent photographs from Abu Ghraib substantiated claims th... Read More