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Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp—a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime.

Negli ultimi decenni l'enfasi sulla sicurezza è stata la risposta dei governi alla crisi delle istituzioni democratiche e dello stato sociale. Ma come sono cambiati i movimenti di protesta? E cosa producono le leggi che criminalizzano il dissenso come gli ultimi pacchetti sicurezza in Italia? A venticinque anni dal G8 di Genova è il momento di chiederselo.

A Reminder of the Rights We Can't Afford to Forget- Reflections on Freedom, Responsibility and What It Means to Be Human What holds us together when the world feels fractured? In The Future and You, Emma Gilligan offers a quiet but powerful meditation on the enduring role of human rights and how...

Als Freda McDonald 1906 in einem Armenviertel in Saint Louis zur Welt kommt, deutet nichts darauf hin, dass sie als Josephine Baker als erster afroamerikanischer Superstar die Welt erobern wird. Die Chancen stehen denkbar schlecht, für die uneheliche Tochter einer Wäscherin, die Gesetze der Rassentrennung ins Gegenteil zu verkehren, doch Josephine Baker hält sich an keine Regeln, sie macht ihre eigenen.

First published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man became one of James Weldon Johnson’s most famous works, and remains a testament to the lives and experiences of both Johnson and his peers. Although primarily a work of fiction, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man offers many parallels with the life of Johnson himself. Set shortly after the Civil War, this powerful fictional memoir recounts the life of a biracial man, grappling with questions around identity, race and justice.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is the leader of Venezuela’s democratic movement and a key advocate for freedom in Latin America. Having won the opposition primaries in 2023 with an overwhelming 92 percent of the vote, she was arbitrarily disqualified by the Nicolás Maduro regime from participating in the 2024 presidential elections. Machado proceeded to unite the country around the call for dignity and freedom, leading the national campaign for Edmundo González that finally obtained 67 percent of the vote.

« Il s'agira de réfléchir à la notion de territoire, à ce qu'elle suppose, à ce qu'elle engendre, ce à quoi elle oblige. Un territoire est délimité, régi et protégé. Ces trois notions n'ont jamais vraiment existé depuis la création de l'État d'Israël, transformant la cohabitation entre Israéliens et Palestiniens en face-à-face sécuritaire plutôt qu'en partage politique d'une terre.

Who Shot Ahmed? recounts the murder of a 22-year-old videographer, killed in cold blood in the dead of night at the height of Bahrain’s Arab Spring revolution. On a small island Kingdom swirling with political, economic, and sectarian tensions, Ahmed’s murder epitomized everything that had gone wrong since 2011, when pro-democracy protesters took to the streets in droves. Drawing on dozens of testimonies, journalist Elizabeth Dickinson traces the tale of Ahmed’s death and his family’s fearless quest for justice.

In Der Frauen Natur und Recht (1876) widerlegt Hedwig Dohm, Vordenkerin der frühen Frauenbewegung, die angeblich naturgegebenen Unterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern – scharfsinnig, humorvoll und mutig. Mit beeindruckender Klarheit analysiert sie psychologische, gesellschaftliche und politische Argumente gegen die Gleichberechtigung – und entlarvt deren ideologische Grundlagen. Ein prägender Text der feministischen Literaturgeschichte. Ein kraftvoller Appell für Gleichberechtigung – unbequem, scharfsinnig und erstaunlich zeitgemäß.

They killed her father for speaking out For decades, the oil-rich Niger Delta—an important wetland and farming region—has seen its environment devastated by oil extraction that has brought little economic benefit to its people. After a nonviolent campaign for environmental and human rights...

¿Cómo suenan los derechos fundamentales cuando es un niño quien los reclama? Esta edición especial de la Declaración de los Derechos del Niño de 1959 cobra vida en la voz de una niña de 9 años, recordándonos que la protección, la salud y la educación no son solo leyes, sino promesas de futuro.

Bloomsbury presents The Age of Genius by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon Griffin What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and...

In June 2024, after 14 years of house arrest and incarceration, Julian Assange, the Australian journalist the CIA had planned to kidnap or kill, was finally released from the UK's top security Belmarsh prison. Years of campaigning by his family and Australian politicians from across the political spectrum had finally paid off – Assange's plea bargain with the US Department of Justice produced the legal deal of the century. Instead of serving a possible 175-year jail sentence, Assange walked free...

La idea de hacer este libro surgió de Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora por la necesidad de dejar una versión propia de su historia y contar en primera persona cómo se conocieron, cómo se organizaron, cómo se fueron construyendo. Muchas, la mayoría de las madres, ya no están con...

Piedad Córdoba es sin lugar a dudas la mujer más controversial de la política colombiana en la última década. Juan Luis Castro Córdoba, su hijo mayor, es médico graduado de la U.P.B con especialización en psiquiatría de la Universidad Monte Sinaí en Nueva York. Especializado...

Dr. Montgomery served as director of studies at the prestigious International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg. France for three years. For thirteen years he has integrated biblical theology and human rights through a summer program in Strasbourg. Learn why only a serious biblical theology can supply the foundations for human rights in our world.

Gino Strada arriva quando tutti scappano, e mette in piedi ospedali di fortuna, spesso senza l'attrezzatura e le medicine necessarie, quando la guerra esplode nella sua lucida follia. Guerre che per lo più hanno un lungo strascico di sangue dopo la fine ufficiale dei conflitti: quando pastori, bambini e donne vengono dilaniati dalle tante mine antiuomo disseminate per le rotte della transumanza, o quando raccolgono strani oggetti lanciati dagli elicotteri sui loro villaggi. I vecchi afgani li chiamano pappagalli verdi.

Radical Islam is an enduring global challenge that presents a national and international security threat. Instigation by hate preachers, inadequate government, societal attention, religious and reciprocal radicalization have allowed this threat to manifest into terrorist violence. Extremist...

Against enormous odds and in the face of fierce pushback, the Palestine solidarity movement has succeeded in transforming the landscape of American politics. In this book, two key leaders and former staff of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) focus on the important role of anti-Zionist Jewish organizing within the broader Palestine solidarity movement, reflecting on their decade of leadership of JVP and drawing lessons especially relevant to those organizing from a position of solidarity.

When an apple falls, does it roll far or stay close to its tree?Is it an exact clone of all the other apples the tree produces or something entirely different?This is the question that has perplexed the public about Marina for the simple reason that she is the daughter of the man who has...