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'For anyone who wants a lucid, factual, reliable guide to some of the most important issues of our time, I strongly recommend you check out the No-Nonsense Guides.' Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and social activist 'A splendid series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear' The Guardian, London The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works George Monbiot, journalist, campaigner and author of The Age of Consent and Captive State 'Publishers have created lists of short books that discuss the questions that your average [electoral] candidate will only ever touch if armed with a slogan and a soundbite. Together [such books] hint at a resurgence of the grand educational tradition... Closest to the hot headline issues are The No-Nonsense Guides. These target those topics that a large army of voters care about, but that politicos evade. Arguments, figures and documents combine to prove that good journalism is far too important to be left to (most) journalists.' Boyd Tonkin,The Independent, London 'For as long as I have been writing about North-South issues - and that's longer than I care to remember - the New Internationalist has been there with pungent, pithy, probing, political analysis. Now they've had the bright idea to encapsulate some of their accumulated wisdom in the No-Nonsense Guides. You can't go wrong - I personally intend to order the whole series' Susan George, Transnational Institute, and author of The Debt Trap and Another World is Possible if...
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How do we define human rights, and how do we protect them? Is the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal? And how has human rights discourse been appropriated by legal and institutional cultures? In this "No-Nonsense Guide", Olivia Ball and Paul Gready review the development of today's assumptions about human rights and introduce us to alternative models from history and from today's human rights debate. Using vivid case studies from around the world, the authors illustrate how the concept of rights changes according to geography and culture. They examine the gap between rights legislation and rights implementation, and provide constructive examples of situations in which rights implementation has been successful. From the material rights of citizenship to the more abstract rights of the imagination, the authors present a clear overview of today's human rights debate, and prompt discussion about alternative models for the future.
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Excellent primer on dignity and human rights
16 May 2011
Format:Paperback
This pocket-sized book is written by a pair of human rights advocates and researchers to help us understand the foundations, history and strategies of the human rights movement. In 135 pages it introduces the remarkable progress in recognising human rights since World War II, the international laws that have developed and the struggle to uphold them. It offers principles and stories that helped me grapple with the issues behind contemporary politically hot questions:
* Does the war-on-terror justify human rights transgressions (rather than committing to respecting human rights as part of an anti-terror strategy)?
* Should torture be allowed under extreme circumstances?
* Why are some northern world leaders concerned about arrest for war crimes if they travel internationally?
* How can Australia justify the shunning of refugee and climate change protocols?
* How can nations protect human rights during modern war? (The Red Cross estimates 10% of those killed in WWI were civilians, 50% in WWII, 83% in Korea, 95% in Vietnam and 84% in Iraq!)
* When is it appropriate to walk in the shoes of Gandhi and Martin Luther King and practice civil disobedience and non-violence to protest escalation of war?
* How can poorer countries balance human rights and environmental protection (e.g. when 8.5 million cubic metres of wood was needed to rebuild Banda Aceh after the Tsunami, but neighbouring orang-utan habitats of Sumatran forest are under threat).
Understanding and responding to human rights abuses is a complex matter. These writers appeal for rigorous research, collaboration with governments, corporations and non-government organisations, enforcing laws as well as utilising trade sanctions, advocating for economic and social rights alongside civil and political rights, and valuing Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and human rights education.
This No-Nonsense Guide underlines the powerful idea that every person has equality, dignity and inalienable rights that should not be ignored by governments, corporations or other individuals. It is a concise primer for students of human rights and for concerned citizens who want to understand issues our politicians might prefer us to ignore.
Originally published in Witness: The Voice of Victorian Baptists, Vol.91, No.2 (March 2011) 22.
* Does the war-on-terror justify human rights transgressions (rather than committing to respecting human rights as part of an anti-terror strategy)?
* Should torture be allowed under extreme circumstances?
* Why are some northern world leaders concerned about arrest for war crimes if they travel internationally?
* How can Australia justify the shunning of refugee and climate change protocols?
* How can nations protect human rights during modern war? (The Red Cross estimates 10% of those killed in WWI were civilians, 50% in WWII, 83% in Korea, 95% in Vietnam and 84% in Iraq!)
* When is it appropriate to walk in the shoes of Gandhi and Martin Luther King and practice civil disobedience and non-violence to protest escalation of war?
* How can poorer countries balance human rights and environmental protection (e.g. when 8.5 million cubic metres of wood was needed to rebuild Banda Aceh after the Tsunami, but neighbouring orang-utan habitats of Sumatran forest are under threat).
Understanding and responding to human rights abuses is a complex matter. These writers appeal for rigorous research, collaboration with governments, corporations and non-government organisations, enforcing laws as well as utilising trade sanctions, advocating for economic and social rights alongside civil and political rights, and valuing Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and human rights education.
This No-Nonsense Guide underlines the powerful idea that every person has equality, dignity and inalienable rights that should not be ignored by governments, corporations or other individuals. It is a concise primer for students of human rights and for concerned citizens who want to understand issues our politicians might prefer us to ignore.
Originally published in Witness: The Voice of Victorian Baptists, Vol.91, No.2 (March 2011) 22.
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