Speaking Out on Human Rights

Speaking Out on Human Rights
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ISBN-10 : 0773543058
ISBN-13 : 9780773543058
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Synopsis Speaking Out on Human Rights by : F. Pearl Eliadis

A critical analysis of the rhetoric and reality surrounding human rights commissions and tribunals, Canada's most contested administrative agencies.

Know Your Rights and Claim Them

Know Your Rights and Claim Them
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Publisher : Zest Books ™
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781728449685
ISBN-13 : 1728449685
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Know Your Rights and Claim Them by : Amnesty International

A timely look at children's rights, the young activists who fought for them, and how readers can do the same by Amnesty International, Angelina Jolie, and Geraldine Van Bueren

Speaking Out on Human Rights

Speaking Out on Human Rights
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9780773591844
ISBN-13 : 0773591842
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Speaking Out on Human Rights by : Pearl Eliadis

Canadians like to see themselves as champions of human rights in the international community. Closer to home, however, the human rights system in Canada - particularly its public institutions such as commissions and tribunals - has been the object of sustained debate and vehement criticism, based largely on widespread myths about how it works. In Speaking Out on Human Rights, Pearl Eliadis explodes these myths, analysing the pervasive distortions and errors on which they depend. Canada's human rights system, a unique legal tradition operating within a powerful modern constitution, is a fundamental mechanism for ensuring the practical application of our national commitment to tolerance and inclusion. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Canada's leading human rights experts and extensive original research, Eliadis explores the evolution of commissions and tribunals as vehicles of public policy and considers their mandate to mediate rights conflicts in such contested areas as hate speech, religious freedoms, and sexuality. She provides a frank assessment of how Canada's human rights system functions and argues that misplaced critiques have prevented urgent and necessary discussions about the reforms that are needed to improve fairness and equality before the law and to ensure institutional independence, impartiality, and competence. Speaking Out on Human Rights shows how our human rights system plays a unique and important role in the rights revolution both in Canada and internationally and offers promising avenues for its future development.

Speaking Freely

Speaking Freely
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Publisher : New Press, The
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9781620971727
ISBN-13 : 1620971720
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Speaking Freely by : Robert L. Bernstein

What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Václav Havel to worldwide attention in his role as the father of modern human rights. Starting as an office boy at Simon & Schuster in 1946, Bernstein moved to Random House in 1956 and succeeded Bennett Cerf as president ten years later. The rest is publishing and human rights history. In a charming and self-effacing work, Bernstein reflects for the first time on his fairy tale publishing career, hobnobbing with Truman Capote and E.L. Doctorow; conspiring with Kay Thompson on the Eloise series; attending a rally for Random House author George McGovern with film star Claudette Colbert; and working with publishing luminaries including Dick Simon, Alfred Knopf, Robert Gottlieb, André Schiffrin, Peter Osnos, Susan Peterson, and Jason Epstein as Bernstein grew Random House from a $40 million to an $800 million-plus “money making juggernaut,” as Thomas Maier called it in his biography of Random House owner Si Newhouse. In a book sure to be savored by anyone who has worked in the publishing industry, fought for human rights, or wondered how Theodor Geisel became Dr. Seuss, Speaking Freely beautifully captures a bygone era in the book industry and the first crucial years of a worldwide movement to protect free speech and challenge tyranny around the globe.

Speaking Up

Speaking Up
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Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : 9780522873528
ISBN-13 : 0522873529
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Speaking Up by : Gillian Triggs

As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny as she defended the defenceless for five tumultuous years. How did this aspiring ballet dancer, dignified daughter of a tank commander and eminent law academic respond when appreciative passengers on a full airplane departing Canberra greeted her with a round of applause? Speaking Up shares with readers the values that have guided Triggs’ convictions and the causes she has championed. She dares women to be a little vulgar and men to move beyond their comfort zones to achieve equity for all. And she will not rest until Australia has a Bill of Rights. Triggs’ passionate memoir is an irresistible call to everyone who yearns for a fairer world.

Speaking Out

Speaking Out
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9780230522435
ISBN-13 : 0230522432
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Speaking Out by : J. Baxter

Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, business and the media, where people are increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female speech is often evaluated differently.

Rights Talk

Rights Talk
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9781439108680
ISBN-13 : 1439108684
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Rights Talk by : Mary Ann Glendon

Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon's acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of rights in America and shows how it has captured the nation's devotion to individualism and liberty, but omitted the American traditions of hospitality and care for the community.

The International Human Rights Movement

The International Human Rights Movement
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9780691200996
ISBN-13 : 0691200998
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The International Human Rights Movement by : Aryeh Neier

A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its founders During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The International Human Rights Movement, Aryeh Neier—a leading figure and a founder of the contemporary movement—offers a comprehensive, authoritative account of this global force, from its beginnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to its essential place in world affairs today. Neier combines analysis with personal experience, and gives an insider’s perspective on the movement’s goals, the disputes about its mission, its rise to international importance, and the challenges to come. This updated edition includes a new preface by the author.

Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier

Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9781000335538
ISBN-13 : 1000335534
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier by : Betty-Anne Daviss

This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional health care systems or creating new ones outside the box. The chapters present models of childbirth at extreme ends of a spectrum—from the conflict zones and disaster areas of Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, and Indonesia, to high-risk tertiary care settings in China, Canada, Australia, and Turkey. Debunking notions about best care, the volume illustrates how human rights in health care are on a collision course with global capitalism and offers a number of specific solutions to this ever-increasing problem. This volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in anthropology, sociology, health, and midwifery, as well as for practitioners, policy makers, and organizations focused on birth or on social activism in any arena.

Speaking Rights to Power

Speaking Rights to Power
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9780199359264
ISBN-13 : 0199359261
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Speaking Rights to Power by : Alison Brysk

How can "Speaking Rights to Power" construct political will to respond to human rights abuse worldwide? Examining dozens of cases of human rights campaigns and using an innovative analysis of the politics of persuasion, this book shows how communication politics build recognition, solidarity, and social change. Building on twenty years of research on five continents, this comprehensive study ranges from Aung San Suu Kyi to Anna Hazare, from Congo to Colombia, and from the Arab Spring to Pussy Riot. Speaking Rights to Power addresses cutting edge debates on human rights and the ethic of care, cosmopolitanism, charismatic leadership, communicative action and political theater, and the role of social media. It draws on constructivist literature from social movement and international relations theory, and analyzes human rights as a form of global social imagination. Combining a normative contribution with judicious critique, this book shows how human rights rhetoric matters-and how to make it matter more.