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c2013., General, Random House Canada Call No: 305.42 A738a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From Africa to Asia to the Americas, women are key yo progess on ending poverty, violence and conflict. [...] Sally Armstrong shows us why women and girls are the way forward and introduces us to the leading women who are making change happen, from Nobel Prize inners to little girls suing for justice." -Publisher.
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2023., Adult, Random House Call No: NEW Fic Gan Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers, swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences. She must ask herself: is it possible for anyone to move through life without doing harm? Sashi begins working as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers, and the arrival of Indian peacekeepers brings further atrocities, she turns to one of her professors, a feminist and dissident who invites her to join in a dangerous, secret project of documenting human rights violations as a mode of civil resistance to war. In gorgeous, fearless writing, Ganeshananthan captures furious mothers marching to demand news of their disappeared sons; a young student attending the hunger strike of an equally young militant; and a feminist reading group that tries to side with community and justice over any single political belief. Set during the early years of Sri Lanka's thirty-year civil war, and based on over a decade of research.
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2005., Thomson Carswell Call No: 342.7108 K69c Edition: 2005 ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2019., Princeton University Press Call No: 341.58 W426c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Instead of collective state responsibility, our leaders are now personally subject to indictment for crimes of aggression, from invasions and preemptions to drone strikes and cyberattacks. The Crime of Aggression is Noah Weisbord's riveting insider's account of the high-stakes legal fight to enact this historic legislation and hold politicians accountable for the wars they start. Weisbord, a key drafter of the law for the International Criminal Court, takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most consequential legal dramas in modern international diplomacy. Drawing on in-depth interviews and his own invaluable insights, he sheds critical light on the motivations of the prosecutors, diplomats, and military strategists who championed the fledgling prohibition on unjust war--and those who tried to sink it. He untangles the complex history behind the measure, tracing how the crime of aggression was born at the Nuremberg trials only to fall dormant during the Cold War, and he draws lessons from such pivotal events as the collapse of the League of Nations, the rise of the United Nations, September 11, and the war on terror. The power to try leaders for unjust war holds untold promise for the international order, but also great risk. In this incisive and vitally important book, Weisbord explains how judges in such cases can balance the imperatives of justice and peace, and how the fair prosecution of aggression can humanize modern statecraft.
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-- Hope and despair.2008., McClelland & Stewart Call No: 971.07 A662m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- CBC Massey lectures.2017., General, House of Anansi Press Inc. Call No: 323 A313i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Massey lectures series.Summary Note: "A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World, the 2017 CBC Massey Lecture, is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times. In February of 2017, Amnesty International released their Annual Report for 2016 to 2017, concluding that the "us versus them" rhetoric increasingly employed by politicians is endangering human rights the world over. Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses: from the religious persecution of Iranian Bahá<U+2019>ís that shaped his personal life, to the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, and the rise of contemporary phenomena such as the Islamic State. But he also reflects on the inspiring resilience of the human spirit and the reality of our inextricable interdependence to liberate us, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others or an empty consumerist culture that worships greed and self-indulgence. A timely, essential, and passionate work of memoir and history, In Search of a Better World is a tour de force by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer. Payam Akhavan is a Professor of International Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The 2017 CBC Massey Lectures will be broadcast on the CBC Radio One Ideas program during the week of November 6 - 10, 2017"--Provided by publisher.
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c2013., General, Random House Canada Call No: Bio E61i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to thinking about the female body--how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet, as she recounts in this inspiring memoir, she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body--a disconnection first brought on by her father's battering and sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. On a trip to the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body.
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2017., Adult, Atria Books Call No: Fic All Edition: Atria paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz--a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile--for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia. Exploring the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees, the book recalls Allende's landmark novel The House of the Spirits in the way it embraces the cause of "humanity, and it does so with passion, humor, and wisdom that transcend politics" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post). In the Midst of Winter will stay with you long after you turn the final page."--From publisher.
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By Moyn, Samuel2010., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Call No: 323.09 M938l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. Here, historian Samuel Moyn elevates that transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.--From publisher description.
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1990., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Bio S111m Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2001., Adult, Allen Lane ; Penguin Putnam Call No: 303.372 S651m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Reinventing the economy to end oppression.2017., BenBella Books, Inc. Call No: 330 J83n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Society is broken. In our increasingly interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. Peter Joseph draws from economics, history, philosophy, and modern public-health research to present a bold case for rethinking activism in the 21st century. He explains how we can design our way to a post-scarcity world where poverty doesn't exist and the human family has become truly sustainable.
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-- People versus democracy.2018., Harvard University Press Call No: 321.8 M928p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. Two core components of liberal democracy--individual rights and the popular will--are at war, putting democracy itself at risk. In plain language, Yascha Mounk describes how we got here, where we need to go, and why there is little time left to waste.--
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2015., Blurb Call No: Bio B813p Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This 2015 collection of poems, paintings and stories by Montreal art activist and cancer survivor, CHERYL BRAGANZA, will make a beautiful addition to your bedside or coffee table. Written in touching prose, her life story covering several continents, weaves delicate threads of color, music, poetry, human rights and survival together into a unique fabric guaranteed to inspire. A real collector's item.
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The right to be cold : one woman's story of protecting her culture, the Arctic, and the whole planetc2015., General, Allen Lane Call No: Bio W346r Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
