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Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay And The Secret Prisons

By Stafford Smith, Clive

An Imperfect Offering: Dispatches from the medical frontline

By Orbinski, James

The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire

By Roy, Arundhati

Human Rights and Scots Law

By Valerie Finch, Christina Ashton

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference: Greta Thunberg

By Thunberg, Greta

Freedom of Speech (What Do We Mean by S.)

By Steele, Philip

Indignez-Vous!

By Stephane Hessel, Hessel, Stéphane

Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill Treatment of Women (Amnesty International Series on Torture)

By Amnesty International

Faith in Action: Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing in America (Morality and Society Series)

By Wood, Richard L.

The Rights of Minority Cultures

By Kymlicka, Will

Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change among Transnational Activists

By Shareen Hertel

Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights

By Wendy H. Wong

Human Rights Treaties and the Senate: A History of Opposition

By Kaufman, Natalie Hevener

The Smash-Up: a delicious satire from a breakout voice in literary fiction

By Benjamin, Ali

The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism

By Kennedy, David

Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society

By Wheeler, Nicholas J.

Diplomacy of Conscience: Amnesty International and Changing Human Rights Norms

By Clark, Ann Marie

For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (Castle Lectures Series)

By Goldstone, Richard

Transitional Justice

By Teitel, Ruti G.

A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide

By Melvern, Linda

The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (Clarendon Paperbacks)

By Alston, Philip

Quiet Hand of God: Faith-Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism

By Wuthnow/Evans

Idealism beyond Borders: The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954–1988 (Human Rights in History)

By Davey, Eleanor

Global Human Rights Institutions: Between Remedy and Ritual

By Oberleitner, Gerd

The Meanings of Rights: The Philosophy And Social Theory Of Human Rights

By Douzinas, Costas

Disruptive Religion: The Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism

By Smith, Christian

The Rise and Rise of Human Rights

By Sellars, Kirsten

Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power

By Bob, Clifford

The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order

By Guilhot, Nicolas

Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective

By Elster, Jon