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¿Qué significa impartir justicia en tiempos de transición? ¿Qué tipo de reparación se les puede ofrecer a las víctimas de violaciones a los derechos humanos y a sus familiares? ¿Cómo se recupera una sociedad fragmentada y se conjugan visiones de la historia en disputa? ¿Cómo se generan diálogos y pasos hacia la convivencia democrática en contextos de conflictos sociales, con frecuencia violentos? En definitiva, ¿qué papel debe cumplir...
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Este libro es producto de un recorrido a los espacios de las Naciones Unidas donde se elaboró la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos: el Comité de Borrador, la Comisión de Derechos Humanos, el Consejo Económico y Social, la Asamblea General. Además, fue dirigido por la necesidad de conocer lo que los delegados expusieron, debatieron y acordaron para dar vida a un documento que se convirtió en ícono y referente político y jurídico....
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Sororidad profundiza en el análisis de los códigos y mensajes misóginos existentes tras los feminicidios sexuales, centrando su estudio en el caso de Ciudad Juárez (México). Cuando se cumplen 25 años de las primeras denuncias públicas, el autor, a través de estudio exhaustivo y pormenorizado de estos capítulos, defiende la existencia de una estructura feminicida panóptica protegida por un pacto entre varones, garantizando de este modo la...
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Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough is an accomplished author, metaphysician, specialty plastic surgeon, and godly American patriot.
In this, his twenty-third book, the doctor addresses how a deep state network that is aligned with Luciferian globalists, has infiltrated government, America's healthcare system, the mainstream media, public education, and the entertainment industry.
With the souls of the America's children hanging in the balance, Dr. McCollough...
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Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture-and could that line be moved? The White House lawyers' answer-in the form of legal documents later known as the "Torture Memos"-became the US's justification for engaging in torture.
The Torturer in the Mirror shows...
26) Razones para la esperanza: La legitimidad y efectividad de los derechos humanos de cara al futuro
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¿Los derechos humanos funcionan? Más allá de los reconocimientos formales y las declaraciones grandilocuentes sobre su importancia, ¿el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos, sus instituciones y movimientos han producido un cambio positivo en el mundo? La sola existencia hoy de la cárcel de Guantánamo, de conflictos armados con bombardeos a civiles y torturas, de regímenes autoritarios y de represión a minorías parece indicar que...
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This study is an attempt at explaining the social structure of India with reference to untouchability.The work objectively aims at the enlightenment of the readers regarding the spirit of laws and their use and misuse and their politicization. It also, attempts, modestly, to show, how to stop the malpractice of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955. It must serve as a guide to the whole society with regard to social, political and economic harmony....
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The Prisoners' Diaries provides a deeply moving series of first - person commentaries on what Palestinian prisoners have been enduring for decades in the dark recesses of Israel's unlawful and inhumane network of prisons. Edited and published during the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, this collection serves to inform us that for Palestinians, imprisonment has become a fact of life, rather than a blatant violation of human rights.
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Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers fresh solutions reflecting sustainability, community, and equity-the only principles that can assure a healthy future for the world's people.
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This autobiographical book draws on the wisdom and learnings of a lifetime of personal growth. The themes that run through the book are layers of personal stories drawn from a colorful family history, from many years as a veterinary surgeon, as facilitator in the adventure industry and as a trekking guide working with the Nepalese Gurkha soldiers. Beneath this are the psychological insights and wisdoms from an array of sources that relate to inner...
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What if modern bureaucrats led our country toward a genocidal end which rivaled history's most wicked regimes? What if Christians helped them do it? And what does any of this have to do with autism?
This book demonstrates how U.S. policy and social evolution has followed a trajectory eerily like the one which seated the Nazis, and how Germany's most-notorious human rights abuses began with violating the human rights of children with disabilities...
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The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights...
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The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories is put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report, which, in the 2014 volume, highlighted the armed conflict in Syria, international drug reform, drones and electronic mass surveillance, and more, and also featured photo essays of child marriage in South Sudan, the cost of the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, and religious fighting in Central African Republic.
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Pressed but not Crushed is an anthology of political poems that address current and historical issues in the American Descendants of Slave (ADOS) population. Issues such as ADOS abduction, white supremacists practices, lynching and murdering of "native blacks" in America are addressed in this book. There is a Say Their Names sections, which honors and memorializes some of the victims of murder by law enforcement and white supremacists. It would take...
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Looking for a new way forward, or a different explanation of what is currently happening? Susan Hawthorne challenges the universal endorsement of global western culture with her concept of biodiversity, arguing that biodiversity is a useful metaphor for understanding social, political, and economic relations in the globalised world of the twenty-first century. She provides a visionary outlook and proposes ways forward that emphasise social justice,...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Glenn Beck's Liars by Instaread Preview: In Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fear for Power and Control, Glenn Beck exposes the past and present onslaught led by the Left against the tenets of free society in the United States. For generations, progressives have been attempting to curb individual liberty in order to construct what they claim will be a more prosperous and peaceful society. Unfortunately, many of them...
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Examining the legal foundations of the war on terror, this book investigates the loss of the civil liberties of American citizens and legal immigrants. In a detailed look at bills such as the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the USA Patriot Act, and the Homeland Security Act, and executive orders, it provides a comprehensive picture of the war on terror and explores the claimed victories by the Bush administration. Chronicling the...
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Why is there so much injustice in the society? Is equality possible? Why do we form groups? What is Power? Are we going to see more conflicts in the future or will the future herald a new era of peace? What does the past predict about the future? Does history repeat Itself? Will history repeat itself? Is there something we can do? Our Egalitarian Universe (OEU) is a series of reflections on these questions. It is an attempt to find solutions to social...
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In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power.
Chang's compelling analysis begins with a historical review of political repression and intolerance of dissent in America. From the Sedition Act of 1798, through the Smith Act of the 1940s and the...
40) Merchants of Men
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A powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees a day all along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. The new breed of criminals that controls it has risen out of the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and the fiasco of the Arab Spring. These merchants of men are intertwined with jihadist armed organizations such as al Qaeda in the Maghreb. They have prospered smuggling cocaine from West Africa and kidnapping...
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