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Women Reshaping Human Rights
How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World
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1996
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In Women Reshaping Human Rights ,ordinary yet extraordinary women tell their stories, in their own words. Their deeds span continents and have profoundly affected millions worldwide.Readers will meet Vera Laska, who as a teenager joined the resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia; Dai Qing, who fights the Communist Party's grip upon the media and government in the People's Republic of China; and Juana Beatrice Gutierrez and the Mothers of East Los Angeles, who challenge drug dealers and toxic polluters threatening their neighborhood.
Professor Bouvard provides a complete biography of every activist. The stage is thus set for each individual, who recounts real-life stories of courage that sadly until now have gone unnoticed. Finally we hear the voices of those who have transformed the quest for human rights.
This volume is divided into five sections: Confronting Authoritarian Governments, Struggling with Race and Ethnicity, Seeking Enviromental Justice, Upholding Women's Rights as Human Rights, and Making the World Safe for Childern.
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Copyright year
1996
ISBN-Print
978-0-8420-2562-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-585-19613-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
328
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Contents No access
Introduction: Women Transforming the Battle for Human Rights No access
Chapter 1 / Vera Laska No access
Chapter 2 / Eva Brantley No access
Chapter 3 / Annette Lu Hsiu-Lien No access
Chapter 4 / Dai Qing No access
Chapter 5 / Daisy L. Bates No access
Chapter 6 / Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi No access
Chapter 7 / Awiakta No access
Chapter 8 / Navanethem Pillay No access
Chapter 9 / Dollie B. Burwell No access
Chapter 10 / Juana Beatrice Gutiérrez and the Mothers of East Los Angeles No access
Chapter 11 / Grace Thorpe No access
Chapter 12 / Gertrude Mongella No access
Chapter 13 / Jessica Neuwirth and Equality Now No access
Chapter 14 / Navanethem Pillay No access
Chapter 15 / Zhu Hong No access
Chapter 16 / Liv Ullmann No access
Chapter 17 / The International Gathering of Mothers and Women in Struggle No access
