Reagan, congress, and human rights, Sondergaard, Rasmus Sinding (lunds Universitet, Sweden)

Автор: Douzinas
Название: The Meanings of Rights
ISBN: 1107679591 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107679597
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Questioning some of the repetitive and narrow theoretical writings on rights, a group of leading intellectuals examine human rights from philosophical, theological, historical, literary and political perspectives.

Автор: Dustin N. Sharp
Название: Rethinking Transitional Justice for the Twenty-First Century : Beyond the End of History
ISBN: 1108442706 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108442701
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Rethinking Transitional Justice for the Twenty-First Century examines transitional justice in the world today and asks whether the field might be re-imagined to better suit the diversity and realities of the twenty-first century. For legal scholars and those working in peace and conflict studies, global studies, and postcolonial studies.

Автор: Wright, Thomas C.
Название: Impunity, human rights, and democracy
ISBN: 1477309829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477309827
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent dictatorships in Argentina and Chile flagrantly defied the new protocols. Chilean general Augusto Pinochet and the Argentine military employed state terrorism in their quest to eradicate Marxism and other forms of “subversion.” Pinochet constructed an iron shield of impunity for himself and the military in Chile, while in Argentina, military pressure resulted in laws preventing prosecution for past human rights violations. When democracy was reestablished in both countries by 1990, justice for crimes against humanity seemed beyond reach.

Thomas C. Wright examines how persistent advocacy by domestic and international human rights groups, evolving legal environments, unanticipated events that impacted public opinion, and eventual changes in military leadership led to a situation unique in the world—the stripping of impunity not only from a select number of commanders of the repression but from all those involved in state terrorism in Chile and Argentina. This has resulted in trials conducted by national courts, without United Nations or executive branch direction, in which hundreds of former repressors have been convicted and many more are indicted or undergoing trial.

Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy draws on extensive research, including interviews, to trace the erosion and collapse of the former repressors’ impunity—a triumph for human rights advocates that has begun to inspire authorities in other Latin American countries, including Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, and Guatemala, to investigate past human rights violations and prosecute their perpetrators.

Автор: Ashwani Peetush and Jay Drydyk
Название: Human Rights: India and the West
ISBN: 0199453527 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199453528
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The subject of human rights in a pluralistic world is critical. Drawing on the vast traditions of India and the West, this volume is unique in providing interdisciplinary essays that range from theoretical, philosophical, normative, social, legal, and political issues in the conceptualization and application of a truly global understanding of human rights.

Автор: Fernand de Varennes, Christie May Gardiner
Название: Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia
ISBN: 1138855707 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138855700
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia provides a rich study of human rights challenges facing some of the most vulnerable people in Asia. Exploring the underlying causes of human rights abuse in a range of contexts, it considers lessons learnt from global, regional and domestic initiatives and provides recommendations for reform.

Автор: Vatlin Alexander
Название: Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin`s Secret Police
ISBN: 0299310841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299310844
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the Great Terror of 1937–38 more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they didn't commit. What kind of people carried out this violent purge, and what motivated them? This book opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrator for the first time. Focusing on Kuntsevo, the Moscow suburb where Stalin had a dacha, Alexander Vatlin shows how Stalinism rewarded local officials for inventing enemies.Agents of Terror reveals stunning, detailed evidence from archives available for a limited time in the 1990s. Going beyond the central figures of the terror, Vatlin takes readers into the offices and interrogation rooms of secret police at the district level. Spurred at times by ambition, and at times by fear for their own lives, agents rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting ""enemies of the people""—even when it meant fabricating the evidence. Vatlin pulls back the curtain on a Kafkaesque system, forcing readers to reassess notions of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.

Автор: Ned Richardson-Little
Название: The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany
ISBN: 1108440789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108440783
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Описание: By exposing the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany, this study places the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light, and demonstrates how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights.

Автор: Gellman Erik S.
Название: Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
ISBN: 1469618990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469618999
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Описание: During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as necessary for reinvigorating American democracy.Much more than just a precursor to the 1960s civil rights movement, this activism created the most militant interracial freedom movement since Reconstruction, one that sought to empower the American labor movement to make demands on industrialists, white supremacists, and the state as never before. By focusing on the complex alliances between unions, civic groups, and the Communist Party in five geographic regions, Gellman explains how the NNC and its allies developed and implemented creative grassroots strategies to weaken Jim Crow, if not deal it the "death blow" they sought.

Автор: Congress Library of
Название: Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote
ISBN: 1978808917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978808911
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Official Companion to the Library of Congress Exhibition.

Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote tells the story of the long campaign for women's suffrage - considered the largest reform movement in American history - which lasted more than seven decades. The struggle was not for the fainthearted. For years, determined women organized, lobbied, paraded, petitioned, lectured, picketed and faced imprisonment.

The book is a profusely illustrated companion to an exhibition organized by the Library of Congress. Both the book and the exhibition draw from the Library's extensive collections of personal papers and organizational records of such figures as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Church Terrell, Carrie Chapman Catt, the National Woman's Party, the National American Woman Suffrage Association and others.

Shall Not Be Denied traces the movement leading to the women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, the contributions of suffragists who worked to persuade women that they deserved the same rights as men, the divergent political strategies and internal divisions they overcame, the push for a federal women's suffrage amendment and the legacy of this movement.
Shall Not Be Denied is part of the national commemoration of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, marking major milestones in 2019 and 2020. The exhibition opens on the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Senate's passage of the suffrage amendment that would become the 19th amendment to the Constitution once ratification by the states was certified on August 26, 1920.

Published by Rutgers University Press in association with the Library of Congress.

Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote
Exhibition at the the Library of Congress
June 4, 2019 - September 2020

Автор: Jenkins Jeffery A., Peck Justin
Название: Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918
ISBN: 022675636X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226756363
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Описание: Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress during the Civil War and Reconstruction. But as Reconstruction came to an end and discrimination against African Americans in the South became commonplace, civil rights advocates in Congress increasingly shifted to policies desired by white constituents in the North who had grown tired of efforts to legislate equality. In this book, the first of a two-volume set, Jeffery A. Jenkins and Justin Peck explore the rise and fall of civil rights legislation in Congress from 1861 to 1918.

The authors examine in detail how the Republican Party slowly withdrew its support for a meaningful civil rights agenda, as well as how Democrats and Republicans worked together to keep civil rights off the legislative agenda at various points. In doing so, Jenkins and Peck show how legal institutions can be used both to liberate and protect oppressed minorities and to assert the power of the white majority against those same minority groups.

Автор: Jenkins Jeffery A., Peck Justin
Название: Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918
ISBN: 022675622X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226756226
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Описание: Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress during the Civil War and Reconstruction. But as Reconstruction came to an end and discrimination against African Americans in the South became commonplace, civil rights advocates in Congress increasingly shifted to policies desired by white constituents in the North who had grown tired of efforts to legislate equality. In this book, the first of a two-volume set, Jeffery A. Jenkins and Justin Peck explore the rise and fall of civil rights legislation in Congress from 1861 to 1918.

The authors examine in detail how the Republican Party slowly withdrew its support for a meaningful civil rights agenda, as well as how Democrats and Republicans worked together to keep civil rights off the legislative agenda at various points. In doing so, Jenkins and Peck show how legal institutions can be used both to liberate and protect oppressed minorities and to assert the power of the white majority against those same minority groups.

Автор: Tarlach McGonagle, Yvonne Donders
Название: The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information: Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 1107444691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107444690
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The first book to map the multitude of UN legal instruments relevant for the protection and promotion of the rights to freedom of expression and information. It addresses key issues such as how these rights can come into conflict with other human rights and with public policy goals, such as counter-terrorism.