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Marek Thee: My Story
Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Ministry and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish delegation to the …
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- SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice
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- V, 110
The State of Peacebuilding in Africa: Lessons Learned for Policymakers and Pr…
This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century. The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and…
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- 978-3-030-46635-0
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The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance
Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups ar…
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Human rights in the global information society
Papers originally presented at the World Summit on the Information Society, November 2005.International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy issue. The first United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in December 2003, recognized the connections between information technol…
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Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility :the New Language of Global B…
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 11, 2012)."'Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term--like love, hope, and justice--that is intuitively grasped but never clea…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages) :illustrations.
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The Road to Democracy in Iran
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
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The road to democracy in Iran /
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
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Children without a state: A global human rights challenge
Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need for the protections, rights, and services offered by states. And yet children are particularly at risk from statelessness. Thirty-six percent of all births in the world are not registered, leaving more than forty-eight million children under the age of five with no legal identity and no formal claim on any state. …
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages) :illustrations, map
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Seeing human rights :video activism as a proxy profession
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2016."Explores the rise of video in human rights activism and in the wider context of journalism, the law, and advocacy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Human Rights in the Age of Platforms
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