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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
El derecho humano al desarrollo frente a la mundialización del mercado	Nicolás Angulo Sánchez	In seven chapters the author purports to explain development in terms of a human right. A separate generation so to speak of human rights similar to those of the environment, of peace, towards human…	OL11698257W
Memoria y frontera	Pablo de Lora	Desde la promulgación de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos por la ONU en 1948, éstos se han convertido en una suerte de «religión civil», un elemento central de la retórica política y …	OL12015316W
Human Rights (World Issues)	Fiona MacDonald	Definition of human rights - How can human rights be achieved? - What causes the failure of governments to provide human rights - Efforts of United Nations - Action against those who abuse human righ…	OL15041166W
Velvet Totalitarianism	Claudia Moscovici	Advance Praise for Claudia Moscovici’s Velvet Totalitarianism A deeply felt, deftly rendered novel of the utmost importance to any reader interested in understanding totalitarianism and its terrib…	OL15167223W
Lavi Franswa moun Asiz	Gérard-Marie Tardieu	A story book for kids 7 years old to 10. Yon liv istwa pou timoun 7 lane rive 10 lane .	OL15367709W
Pathologies of power	Paul Farmer	Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years o…	OL15893773W
Human rights in the Asia-Pacific region	Hitoshi Nasu	"The Asia-Pacific region is known for having one of the least developed institutional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to con…	OL15901424W
The local relevance of human rights	K. de Feyter	"Do human rights offer real protection when disadvantaged groups invoke them at the local level in an attempt to improve their living conditions? If so, how can we make sure that the experiences of t…	OL15921116W
For humanity	Richard Goldstone	A justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa since 1994, Goldstone provides an intimate account of his progression from a young activist opposing South Africa's racial policies to the world'…	OL545545W
Personal freedom through human rights law	Marshall, Jill	"Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a right to respect for one's private life. The European Court of Human Rights has interpreted this provision broadly to include a right …	OL5821592W
Secret Trials and Executions	Barbara Olshansky	Since the attacks of September 11th, there has been a sweeping revision of U.S. immigration laws, foreign intelligence gathering operations, and domestic law enforcement procedures. While aimed at …	OL5826414W
Will the boat sink the water?	Chen, Guidi.,Guidi Chen	This unique work of investigative literary journalism is translated into English for the first time. The Chinese prize-winning original sold more than 250,000 copies before it was banned and went on …	OL5852142W
Human rights	Brian Orend	Publisher description: What are human rights? What justifies us in believing we have them? What are rights-holders and duty-bearers? Who should bear the costs and responsibilities for making human ri…	OL5999664W
The human right to property	Theo R. G. van Banning	This book describes the charateristics and reach of the much debated right to property, in the context of it being one of the fundamental human rights.	OL6059146W
Borderline	Peter Mares	Australia's response to refugees and asylum seekers in the wake of the Tampa	OL6073973W
Turning the tide	Noam Chomsky	Noam Chomsky addresses relations throughout Central America and relates these to superpower conflicts and the overall role of the Cold War in contemporary international relations.	OL71730W
Beyond impunity	Geneviève Jacques	x, 61 pages ; 22 cm	OL7813751W
Human Rights in Chinese Thought	Stephen C. Angle	What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own? Human Rights in Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to this question in the first study of it…	OL8304984W
Levi's Children	Karl Schoenberger	"Levi Strauss is perhaps the ideal model for understanding how globalization has brought companies face-to-face with accusations of human rights violations. For years, the iconic blue-jeans maker has…	OL8398816W
To Save Her Life	Dan Saxon	Part human rights drama, part political thriller, part love story, this riveting narrative chronicles the disappearance of one woman as it tells the larger story of the past fifty years of violence a…	OL9227346W