Tainted Legacy: 9/11 And the Ruins of Human Rights; The Executive Director of Amnesty International USA Examines the Relationship Between the Growth of Terror Around the World and the Violation of Human Rights

William Schulz (Author); Anthony Lewis (Preface)

ISBN 10: 1560254890 / ISBN 13: 9781560254898

Published by Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books/Published by the Avalon Publishing Group, New York, 2003

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242 pp. Essentially flawless copy with minimal external wear and clean text.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tainted Legacy: 9/11 And the Ruins of Human Rights; The Executive Director of Amnesty International USA Examines the Relationship Between the Growth of Terror Around the World and the Violation of Human Rights
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books/Published by the Avalon Publishing Group, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560254890
• ISBN 13: 9781560254898
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Illustrator: Marek Antoniak (Cover Design); Kathleen Lake, Neuwirth & Associates, Inc. (Book Design)
• Edition: Copyright 2003
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Current Affairs, Current Events, Politics
  • Law, Jurisprudence, Legal Studies

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Synopsis

Have human rights as we once understood them become obsolete since 9-11? Aren't new methods needed to combat the apocalyptic violence of al-Qaeda? Shouldn't we sacrifice some rights to make us all safer? And if we can kill a combatant in battle, why shouldn't we torture them if it will save lives? William Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, examines these and other fundamental questions through the prism of our new consciousness about terrorism in this provocative new book. It questions America's own ambivalent record—its tainted legacy—and addresses recent human rights violations: the imprisonment without charge of non-citizens and the violation of the Geneva Convention at Guantanamo Bay. Schulz writes, "One of Osama bin Laden's goals is to destroy the solidarity of the international community and undermine the norms and standards that have sustained that community since the end of World War II. The great irony of the post-9/11 world is that, when it comes to human rights, the United States has been doing his work for him."

About the Author

William F. Schulz is Executive Director of Amnesty International (USA) and is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, and is Chair of the Board of Meadville/Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago.