Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States

Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States 0812243609, 9780812243604

Most Americans assume that the United States provides a gold standard for human rights—a 2007 survey found that 80 perce

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Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States 9780812205145

Human Rights in Our Own Backyard focuses on the state of human rights and responses to human rights issues in the United

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Our Own Backyard: The United States In Central America, 1977-1992 0807823953, 9780807823958, 0807848573

In this book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America in

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Human Rights And The United States

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Language Rights and the Law in the United States: Finding our Voices 9781853596445

This book is provides a review of the legal status of minority languages in the US and provides the historical and polit

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Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India 9780812294200

In Women's Human Rights and Migration, Sital Kalantry examines the laws to ban sex-selective abortion in the United

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Economic Rights in Canada and the United States 9780812204780

This volume explains how economic rights are realized—or violated—in Canada and the United States. Contributors analyze

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A Most Uncertain Crusade: The United States, the United Nations, and Human Rights, 1941–1953 9781501751257

Brucken shows how the American human rights policy had come full circle: Eisenhower, like Roosevelt, issued statements t

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Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards 9781501722639

We are not shy about reporting human rights abuses around the globe. We are much more reluctant to recognize them at hom

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Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States 9780812298291

In the same way that the rise of the New Right cannot be understood apart from the mobilization of evangelicals, Gene Zu

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