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2011 Human Rights Watch World Report
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The Women''s Suffrage Movement and Feminism in Argentina from Roca to Perón
Gregory HammondCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99On September 23, 1947, the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires filled with jubilant men and women celebrating a new law that gave women the same right as...
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25 Years After Beijing, the Status of Women in Iran
Ncri Women's CommitteeCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
Human Rights in a Changing World: Research and Applied Approaches
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €199.63Original price €216.99The key terms in this book human rights, changing the world, research, and applied approaches reflect the approach to explore the relationship be...
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The Fixers: Local News Workers and the Underground Labor of International Reporting
Lindsay PalmerCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99News fixers are locally-based media employees who serve as translators, coordinators, and guides to foreign journalists in unfamiliar terrain. Oper...
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Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince
Peter OrnerCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisSeven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere s...
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Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?
Christopher BertramCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99States claim the right to choose who can come to their country. They put up barriers and expose migrants to deadly journeys. Those who survive are ...
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The Biopolitics of Embryos and Alphabets: A Reproductive History of the Nonhuman
Ruth A. MillerCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between ...
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltCurrent price €14.43Original price €18.50Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world''s greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all peo...
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The Struggle for Freedom from Fear: Contesting Violence against Women at the Frontiers of Globalization
Alison BryskCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries...
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Rights: Concepts and Contexts
Horacio SpectorCurrent price €311.87Original price €338.99Rights: Concepts and Contexts contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most pro...
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Privacy: A Very Short Introduction
Raymond WacksCurrent price €14.71Original price €15.99Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations ab...
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Love Letters to the Home Office
Love Letters to the Home OfficeCurrent price €10.11Original price €10.99Current price €10.11Original price €10.99Save 8% -
Speaking truth to power: The story of the AIDS law project
Didi MoyleCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is a small legal NGO in Johannesburg that, along with its allies in the Treatment Action Campaign, fought for more than ...
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80-20: Development in an Unequal World
New Internationalist Publications LtdCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists. It explores inequalities and injust...
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Torture - Does it Work ? Interrogation issues and effectiveness in the Global War on Terror
Yvonne RidleyCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99Current price €17.59Original price €19.99Save 12% -
An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women
Karen StoteCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among undesirable populations in Canada. Though many people were t...
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Ava Helen Pauling: Partner, Activist, Visionary
Mina CarsonCurrent price €26.22Original price €28.50The story of Ava Helen Paulingher rich career as an activist first for civil rights and liberties, then against nuclear testing, and finally for pe...
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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Commentary, Cases, and Materials
Ben SaulCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99Economic, social, and cultural rights are finally coming of age. This book brings together all essential documents, materials, and case law relatin...
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Revolutionizing Feminism
Anne E. LacsamanaCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99Revolutionizing Feminism offers the first feminist analysis of the human rights crisis in the Philippines during the Arroyo presidency (2001-2010) ...
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Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers: Memories of Mississippi 1964-65
Jim DannCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99In June 1964, courageous young civil rights workers risked their lives in the face of violence, intimidation, illegal arrests, and racism to regist...
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Humane Migration: Establishing Legitimacy and Rights for Displaced People
Christine HoCurrent price €57.44Original price €67.58The popular discourse on immigration in North America and Western Europe is usually framed in terms of violations to national law, fueled by fear a...
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How I Learned to Speak Israel: An American''s Guide to a Foreign Policy Language
Alex McDonaldCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Current price €20.69Original price €22.99Save 10% -
Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
Todd MillerCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 ter...
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Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism
Will GuzmanCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community...
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American Indian Sovereignty: The Struggle for Religious, Cultural and Tribal Independence
J. Mark HazlettCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Since the arrival of European settlers, Native American cultural sovereignty has been under attack. Self-determination is a tribal right of Nati...
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Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
Rob LarsonCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99If the stories they tell about themselves are to be believed, all of the tech giantsApple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazonwere built from t...
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Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 18301870
Dana Elizabeth WeinerCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to...
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3 Volume Hardback Set: The Travaux Preparatoires
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €346.29Original price €398.04A collection of United Nations documents associated with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these volumes facilitate resear...
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The Future of Human Rights
Alison BryskCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world from Amazonian villages to Iranian prison...
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Immigrant and Refugee Students in Canada
Brush Education IncCurrent price €23.79Original price €27.99Recent immigrants and refugees--both children and their families--often struggle to adapt to Canadian education systems. For their part, educators ...
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The Zeus Complex : A Manifesto Against Aerial Bombardment of Civilians: 2016
Peter NiasCurrent price €9.67Original price €10.99Current price €9.67Original price €10.99Save 12% -
Copts and the Security State: Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt
Laure GuirguisCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the politic...
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Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century
Birgit SchwellingCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challen...
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Copts and the Security State: Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt
Laure GuirguisCurrent price €109.79Original price €121.99Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the politic...
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Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights
Wendy H. WongCurrent price €35.87Original price €38.99Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influenc...
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China On Strike: Narratives of Worker''s Resistance
Eli FriedmanCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary and most u...
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Europe In Revolt!
Haymarket BooksCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The global recession has had political consequences across the world, but nowhere greater than in the periphery of Europe. In response, a massive w...
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On Liberty (1859)
John Stuart MillCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99In this work, Mill reflects on the struggle between liberty and authority and defends the view that the only purpose for which power can be rightfu...
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Bound to Freedom: Slavery to Liberation
Lisa KristineCurrent price €42.49Original price €49.99Many think slavery ended with the demise of the trans-Atlantic trade, but sadly, that's far from true. An estimated thirty-six million live without...
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Women''s Rights
Natasha ThomsenCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99At the dawn of the 21st century's second decade, the issues women face are just as daunting and complex as ever before, from suffrage and equal rep...
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The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency''s Detention and Interrogation Program
Senate Select Committee on IntelligenceCurrent price €20.23Original price €21.99Current price €20.23Original price €21.99Save 8% -
The Impossible Machine: A Genealogy of South Africa''s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Adam SitzeCurrent price €64.19Original price €73.78Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa''s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to two well-established instruments of colonial a...
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Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
Marta RussellCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insight...
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