The Concise Guide To Global Human Rights

Much more than a simple 'guide to global human rights,' this book is an urgently needed and sophisticated reflection on the vital nature of human rights in the 21st century. Daniel Fischlin and Martha Nandorfy argue that when the environment, health, water, and food are more at risk that ever before, human rights must become the tangible expression of an 'all-encompassing respect for life.'

In a world facing the growing challenges of globalized apartheid and pandemic poverty, human rights will determine the future of every one of us and our sustainability as a species. This book allows us at least to reclaim our hope in that future. - Roger Clark, former Secretary General of Amnesty International

The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights is an excellent road map for navigating the labyrinthian challenges posed by globalization. It should be used by human rights activists and students alike. - Micheline Ishay, The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalization

Reminds us, with Mahatma Gandhi, that only the power of emotional intelligence embodied in heroic ... resistance may help transform the law from being the convenience of the powerful into a platform and portal for collective human action for global justice ... a must read. - Dr. Upendra Baxi, University of Warwick

Daniel Fischlin and Martha Nandorfy are co-authors of the groundbreaking book Eduardo Galeano: Through the Looking Glass. Fischlin is, as well, co-author with Ajay Heble of Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making in which Nandorfy is a contributor.

2006: 268 pages, 6x9, illustrations, bibliography and index

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55164-294-9

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55164-295-6



List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue by Vandana Shiva
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Chapter 2 - Globalization and Developpment: Human and Sustainable or Corporate and Cancerous?
Chapter 3 - All Human Beings Are Equal: the Community of Minority and Majority Rights
Chapter 4 - Terrorism, Security, and Selective Rights in an Age of Retributive Fear
Chapter 5 - Communicating Rights: Media, Rights Organizations, Education, and the Arts
Chapter 6 - The Future of Human Rights: Reclaiming Hope and the Commons
Chapter 7 - Timeline: A Brief History of Human Rights
Works Cited
Index

 

Daniel Fischlin is Professor of English at the University of Guelph and co-author with Ajay Heble of Rebel Music: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making, and with Martha Nandorfy of Eduardo Galeano: Through the Looking Glass. Martha Nandorfy is the author of The Poetics of Apocalypse: García Lorca's Poet in New York and co-author, with Daniel Fischlin, of Eduardo Galeano: Through the Looking Glass. She has published numerous articles and reviews on film, Latin American literature, children's literature, and is working on a book dealing with Pedro Almodóvar's cinematic representation